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EAVE NEWSLETTER January 2009

EAVE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:
*** MAX MANUS hits the box office***
*** 4 awards for EAVE producers in Dubai***
*** FIRPESCI award for EAVE project BETTER THINGS***

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IN DEVELOPMENT / PRE-PRODUCTION

EURIMAGES

At their 113th funding session, 12 European co-production were granted production support. Among them, 4 projects produced by EAVE graduates:
- ÜBERLEBEN IN VENEDIG, producer: Golden Girls Filmproduktion (EAVE 2003 graduate Raphael Barth, EAVE 2009 participant Arash Riahi)
- NEON FLASH, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate and Swedish National Coordinator Helena Danielsson (Hepp Film, SE)
- VISAGES, producer: JBA Produktion (EAVE graduate Marianne Dumoulin), co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper (Circe Films, NL)
- CIRCUS FANTASTICUS, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Jozko Rutar (Staragara, SI), co-producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Morgan Bushe (Fastnet Films, IRL)
www.coe.int/eurimages

Project CIRCUS FANTASTICUS by Janez Burger, has been supported by the Irish Film Board with a sum of 250.000 EUR. The film is produced by EAVE 2008 graduate Jozko Rutar (Staragara, SI) and co-produced by EAVE 2008 graduate Morgan Bushe (Fastnet Films, IRL). The 2 producers met at EAVE 2008.
www.irishfilmboard.ie

EAVE 2006 graduate Robert Winkler and company Bonusfilm (AT) is currently developing BARRIEREFREEFILMS. This projects develops techniques for the hearing impaired and visually handicapped to have access to the films shown in a cinema together with a not handicapped audience.
www.barrierfreefilms.net

IN POSTPRODUCTION

After 8 months, the shooting of the documentary BEHIND THE LIGHTS by Sandra Sanchez, produced by Tic Tac Producciones (EAVE 2008 graduate Fernanda del Nido, Spain) in co-production with Lagarto Cine (Argentina) has finished. The documentary travels along with the traders, the last nomads of our time, from fair to fair and from village to village. BEHIND THE LIGHTS is a choir story which crosses many human stories, cultures, languages, and ways to understand life. The film has been supported by the Conselleria de Cultura y Deporte de la Xunta de Galicia, the Axencia Audiovisual Galega, the Consorcio Audiovisual de Galicia and Ibermedia.
www.tictacproducciones.com

Dutch EAVE 1995 graduate Ruud van Gessel has directed and produced for VPRO Holland Doc a unique project: 'TAPZ A MOBIMENTARY. Four youngsters filmed their life with mobile phones and their conversations were tapped. In the newspapers the 'mobimentary' is announced as a new genre changing the creative roles in documentary film making.

CURRENTLY PLAYING

Luxembourg distributor Paul Thiltges Distributions (PTD, EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges) successfully brought the Dutch children’s film WHERE IS WINKY’S HORSE? from Mischa Kamp and produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal to Luxembourg cinemas. The film started its eight weeks of release last month.
www.ptd.lu

L’AUTRE by Pierre Tridivic and Patrick Mario Bernard, produced by EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman (Agat Films / Ex Nihilo, F) premieres in Paris on January 13.
www.agatfilms.com

ELEVE LIBRE by Joachim Lafosse, produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Versus Production, B), has been released in Belgium and France this month.
www.versusproduction.be

DIAMANT 13 by Gilles Beat, delegate produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges’ production company Samsa Film (L) together with Artémis Productions (B) and MK2 (F), in co-production with EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye (Liaison Cinématographique, F), will come to French cinemas on January 21. The cast reunites Gérard Depardieu and Olivier Marchal. The film is an adaptation of Hugues Pagan’s thriller L'ÉTAGE DES MORTS (“The Floor of the Dead”).
www.samsa-film.com

BETTER THINGS, directed by Duane Hopkins and produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Samm Haillay (Third Films, UK), in co-production with EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers (Flying Moon, D), and associate produced by EAVE 2002 graduate David Smith, will be released in the UK on the January 23 and in France on January 21.

J.C.V.D. by Mabrouk El Mechri, produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L) in co-production with Gaumont (F) and Artemis Productions (B) and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme will be released in the UK on January 23.
www.samsa-film.com

Since the release of the trailer, the buzz about the tragic comedy DIRTY MIND (produced by CAVIAR – EAVE 2007 graduates Daniel Lambert and Peter de Maegd) has been growing steadily. In his debut film, Belgian comedian Wim Helsen plays Diego. He struggles with low self-esteem until he has a serious accident and wakes up as Tony T, an uninhibited, smooth-talking stuntman. Director Pieter Van Hees combines comedy, romance, drama and extreme stunts into a tasteful and explosive cocktail which will be released in Belgium on January 28.
www.caviar.be

FEUERHERZ by Luigi Falorni, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer (Aichholzer Film, AT) will be released in Germany on January 29.
www.aifilm.at
 
NORTH FACE by director Philipp Stölzl, produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz (DOR film, AT) will be released in South Korea this month with 120 prints.
www.nordwand-film.de

BOX OFFICE

Norwegian-German coproduction MAX MANUS was released in Norway on December 19 with a record opening weekend of more than 140.000 tickets, marking the strongest opening for a Non-US movie ever in Norway. Now after the 3rd weekend in Norway the film counts 560.000 sold tickets and a gross of 6,8 Mio US$, still ranking number one by far at the Norwegian box office with unchanged 103 prints. The movie about the true story of adventurer, globetrotter and WW2 resistance fighter Max Manus is directed by Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg, produced by Filmkameratene (NO) in co-production with Miso Films (DK) and EAVE 1991 graduate Rudi Teichmann (B & T Film GmbH, D). MAX MANUS has been supported by Eurimages and is starring Aksel Hennie, Agnes Kittelsen, Ken Duken, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Oliver Stokowski.
www.maxmanusfilmen.no

ECHTE WIENER, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Robert Winkler (Bonusfilm, AT) was released on December 19 in Austria and has sold more than 58.000 tickets on the first weekend. It is the 3rd best start of a film in Austria ever.
www.echtewiener.at
 
ON TV

DANCE 4 FILM, a 90-minute celebration of the best of dance film, introduced by Jonzi D, has been broadcast on December 27 at 15h30 on Channel 4. The programme is a mix of newly commissioned dance films as well as the best of existing dance films from around the world.
DANCE 4 FILM is a collaboration between Channel 4, Arts Council England in association with Australia Council for the Arts and ABC Television and is directed by Margaret Williams. Producer is EAVE 2006 graduate Anne Beresford (MJW PRODUCTIONS, UK).

EDEN by Michael Hofmann, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Michael Jungfleisch (Gambit, D) was broadcast on ARTE on January 6 at 23h and on January 11 at 16h.
www.gambit-film.de

ON DVD

ARCTIC MONKEY AT THE APOLLO, associate produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Grant Keir (Vita Nova Films, UK)  has been released on DVD on November 3.
www.arcticmonkeysattheapollo.com

EAVE 2005 project LA PALOMA, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Sigrid Faltin (White Pepper, D) in co-production with French production company Seppia will be released on DVD on January 23, 2009. The DVD will be published with the English, German, German/French and Spanish version, including a lot of bonus material. Retail price: 17,99 € + 7 € for shipping (within Europe). International sales of LA PALOMA are handled by EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel (First Hand Films, D/CH).
www.whitepepper.de

DVDOC.be, a web-based DVD selling platform, entirely dedicated to documentaries, celebrates its first birthday with a growing catalogue of over 40 films! DVDOC is a joint initiative by EAVE 2007 graduate Isabelle Truc (Iota production, B), EAVE 2004 graduate Geneviève De Bauw (Thank You & Good Night, B), Denis Delcampe (Need Productions), and Jacques Martin (Crossroads).  Their latest highlights: CAMPO SANTO by Sonia Pastecchia (produced by EAVE 2007 graduates Isabelle Truc & Serge Guez), NORD-SUD.COM by François Ducat, COIN ROUGE, COIN BLEU by Alain Marcoen, HISTOIRES DE PLUIE by Isabel Achaval and UNE PLACE AU VILLAGE by Tatiana de Perlinghi and Jacques Moriau. Coming up in 2009: DEMAIN, J’IRAI MIEUX by Dominique Henry and Vincent Detours, SAINT-MARCEL – TOUT ET RIEN VOIR by François Hien (produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Nadège Hasson and EAVE 2004 graduate Geneviève De Bauw).
www.dvdoc.be

THE FORGOTTEN CIRCUS, directed by Shelly Love, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Anne Beresford (MJW PRODUCTIONS, UK) will be launched on dvd this month as part of an innovative collaboration with British band The Irrepressibles who produced the score for the film. Time Out magazine described the film as 'a Lynchian feast of dead-eyed acrobats and backwards-talking clowns'  and it will form part of a special dvd/cd package featuring music by the band.
www.mjwproductions.com


NOMINATIONS

EAVE project THE HOUSE OF MY FATHERS by Ineke Smits, produced by EAVE graduate Denis Vaslin has been selected to take part at the PRODUCTION VALUE 2009 course. Next edition: 10 — 17 January 2009 North of Oslo in Norway. Production Value s a 7-day residential workshop simulating the pre-preparations for 6 existing film projects and ultimately delivering professional budgets and shooting schedules.
http://www.focal.ch/prodvalue/
 
Tilda Swinton has been nominated British Actress of the Year for her role in JULIA by the London Critics' Circle. The awards ceremony will take place on February 4 in London. JULIA was directed by Erick Zonca and co-produced by EAVE 1989 graduate Hubert Toint (Saga Film, Belgium).
www.sagafilm.be

The Sundance Institute has selected 12 projects for the annual Sundance Screenwriters Lab in January.The five-day writer's workshop is designed to give independent screenwriters the chance to work intensively on their feature scripts with the support of established writers. More than 2.000 proposals were submitted. Among the 12 is ON SPEAKING TERMS, written by the Mexican writer Carlos Contreras and produced by the Dutch production company Revolver (EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij). Writer Carlos Contreras previously wrote the screenplay for the movie BLUE EYELIDS, that has been shown at major film festivals around the world, amongst which the 46th ‘Semaine Internationale de la Critique’ at the Cannes Film Festival, the Guadalajara Mexican Film Festival and the Tokyo International Film Festival. BLUE EYELIDS won numerous awards, including the Special Jury Award of the Sundance Film Festival 2007 and the ‘Ariel’ of the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences for Best First Work. ON SPEAKING TERMS is currently being developed by the Binger Filmlab and is supported by the Rotterdam Film Fund.
www.revolver.nl


AWARDS

At the Dubai International Film Festival awards ceremony, 4 top awards went to EAVE graduates: Documentary THIS IS MY PICUTRE WHEN I WAS DEAD, one of the projects participating at the EAVE Professional Coaching for Producers Workshop in Dubai, directed and produced by Mahmoud Al Massad and co-produced by EAVE 2009 participant Sabine Gronenwegen, won the Dubai International Film Festival Prize at the Dubai Film Connection.
THE SALT OF THIS SEA by Annemarie Jacir and produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin won Best Screenplay of the Muhr Arabic Competition. In the Muhr AsiaAfrica Competition, the award for Best Composer went to Jorja Mesafin and Vigay Iyer for TEZA, produced by EAVE 1992 graduate & French National Coordinator Philippe Avril.
Askhat Kuchinchirekov was awarded Best Actor for his performance in TULPAN, co-produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer.
www.dubaifilmfest.com 

BETTER THINGS, directed by Duane Hopkins and produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Samm Haillay (Third Films, UK), in co-production with EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers (Flying Moon, D), and associate produced by EAVE 2002 graduate David Smith, has been given the FIPRESCI award in Stockholm late last month.

At the Festival of German Film in Copenhagen, opening film CLOUD 9, produced by EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel (Rommel Film, D) and directed by Andreas Dresen, has received the Audience Award.
www.wolke9.senator.de

The Argentinean Academy of Film Arts and Science has awarded 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate and French national coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac) Best Foreign Film.

DEADLINES

EAVE Latin America / PUENTES – upcoming deadline!

For the first time in 2009, EAVE and Buenos Aires Lab will organize a common workshop for Latin American and European producers in Buenos Aires from March 26-30, 2009. PUENTES will enable fiction film producers from Europe and Latin America to work together in a five-day workshop. It will offer high level professional development and working on the development of European and Latin American projects, exploring the audiovisual market and operating conditions in both continents. Target group: experienced & successful producers in their own countries wishing to work on an international scale, to create long term creative & business relationships between Europe & Latin America. Application deadline: January 15, 2009.
www.eave.org
www.bafici.gov.ar

NexT Film Festival - SUBMISSIONS OPEN!!!

The third edition of NexT International Short and Medium Length Film Festival will take place in Bucharest from April 1 to April 5, 2009. Therefore, NexT calls for entries of narrative films up to 60 minutes (animation included, no documentaries), completed after the 1st of January 2007. Besides the competition and the off competition programmes, NexT also presents a series of seminars on directing, sound-design, production & distribution, offered free of charge to the participants. NexT intends to be a meeting point for young filmmakers around the world.
NexT covers accommodation and travel expenses (%) for the director / sound-designer of the films in competition. Get-together with local filmmakers & live music are organized every night.
Deadline for submissions: January 10, 2009!
Contact: Yvonne Irimescu, contact@nextproject.ro
www.nextproject.ro

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A successful close for EAVE 2008 in Warsaw

The EAVE 2008 Producers Workshop came to a close with its 3rd and last workshop held in Warsaw, Poland (November 17-24), organised in partnership with the Polish Film Institute and the Association of Polish Filmmakers.

During this final workshop, the 48 participants from 27 European countries had the opportunity to meet some 47 high-profile European professionals from the industry* in over 650 pre-scheduled one-to-one encounters and various informal meetings in order to pitch the 33 projects that were developed during this year’s EAVE training cycle.
(*Please find the complete list of Decision Makers on www.eave.org).

During the debriefing sessions, the Decision Makers complimented the high level of professionalism of the EAVE producers and the outstanding quality of the projects presented. As Thorsten Ritter (Bavaria International), put it: "I was impressed by the quality of projects and the reasonable approach of the producers. You could certainly tell that they had been under training before and they were prepared to put everything into perspective."

Especially the 4 documentary projects were very much appreciated: LAPP HAT (producer: Guro Saniola Bjerk), VANISHING POINT (producer: Jesper Jack), BLOOD IN THE MOBILE (producer: Ole Tornbjerg) and GHOST ROADS, produced by Trevor Curran.

EAVE has the pleasure to announce that this workshop ended with some very positive and concrete results for the 2008 graduates. Among the hit projects that aroused everyone’s attention and that obtained concrete declarations and letters of interest were for example MY FOREIGN ME by producer Sabine Holtgreve, RADIO CAROLINE (producer: Saskia Vischer), THE TRAKL AFFAIR (producer: Oliver Neumann), GODDODIN, produced by Gethin Scourfield, KINO KARAVAN (producer: Tudor Giurgiu), GOLDDIGGERS, produced by Annika Sucksdorff, as well as SQATTERS (producer: Fiona Campbell).

EAVE projects ILLUMINATED NIGHT by producer Anna Katchko (SE), YOUNG MARIE BELLE produced by Sandra Harms (SE) and THE ENTHUSIAST (producer: Marta Bite, LT) were selected for the Baltic Event co-production market - congratulations!

And as EAVE is also the ideal platform for networking, several projects found co-producers amongst EAVE colleagues, for example YOUNG SOPHIE BELLE, co-produced by Sandra Harms (SE) and Sabine Holtgreve (D), WHITE WHITE WORLD, co-produced by Uliks Fehmiu (Serbia), and Guido Schwab (D), and thriller WEEKEND with co-producers Gergely Fodor (HU) and Tudor Giurgiu (RO).

EAVE wishes all the 2008 graduates good luck for their future and thanks all the attending decision makers, experts and the pedagogical team for sharing their expertise and experience with the participants.

We also want to express our gratitude to the Polish Film Institute and the Association of Polish Filmmakers and especially to Karolina Rozwod, for her great support in successfully running the workshop, to Oriana Kujawska, as well as to Joanna Wendorff from the Polish MEDIA Desk for contributing to its success.

The EAVE 2008 Producers Workshop was supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Film Fund Luxembourg, FAS/Screen Training Ireland, Louth, Newry & Mourne Film Commission, the Polish Film Institute and the Association of Polish Filmmakers.

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EAVE Newsletter DECEMBER 2008

EAVE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:
*** 4 top awards for EAVE producers at IDFA ***
*** Multiple awards for BURMA VJ and TULPAN ***
*** 4 EAVE projects currently in postproduction ***
*** Call for Actors from Eastern Europe ***
*** EAVE Latin America / PUENTES: application deadline extended! ***
*** EAVE Plus workshop in DUBAI ***

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IN DEVELOPMENT / PRE-PRODUCTION

Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung

German regional fund MDM awarded 227.000 EUR production support to EAVE 2008 project WHITE WHITE WORLD by Belgrade-based film-maker Oleg Novkovic's and produced by EAVE 2008 graduate Uliks Fehmiu (West End Productions, Serbia). The film is being co-produced by EAVE 2008 graduate Guido Schwab (ostlicht filmproduktion, D) whom Uliks met at EAVE.
Other projects supported include: David Pinillos' comedy BON APPETIT, produced by Egoli Tossell Film (EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer) with partners in Switzerland and Spain.
Agnieszka Holland's German-Canadian-Polish co-production HIDDEN (producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Leander Carell, SchmidtzKatze Filmkollektiv, D) received 580.000 EUR from MDM as well as support from German Federal Film Board FFA.
EAVE 2000 graduate Simone Baumann (LE Vision Film- und Fernsehproduktion, D) received 80.000 EUR for DIEBE IM GESETZ and EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter (Rohfilm) 150.00 EUR for JAFFA. 37.800 EUR for script development went to EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs (Hoferichter & Jacobs) and MICHA – JETZT LEBE ICH.
www.mdm-online.de


EAVE 2008 project STRAY DOGS has been granted 375.000 EUR production funding by German regional fund Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein. The film directed by Jan Bauer will be produced by EAVE graduate Dirk Decker (Rivafilm, D).
www.rivafilm.de

Producer Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv (EAVE 2002 graduate Leander Carell) picked up 320.000 EUR from the Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Film Fund for a drama set in the Second World War and focussing on the Nazi persecution of the Jews: Björn Runge's adaptation of Marianne Fredriksson's novel SIMON (AND THE OAKS) to be co-produced with Sweden and Norway.
www.schmidtzkatze.de

AGUA FRIA DEL MAR, co-produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Jean des Forêts (Les Films du Requin, F) and EAVE 2008 graduate Fernanda del Nido (Tic Tac Producciones, E) has been granted the Fondation Groupama-Gan (60.000€ for the film, 7.600€ for the director). The project has also obtained IBERMEDIA and Arte-Cofinova and will be shot in February/March 2009.
www.lesfilmsdurequin.com

EAVE 2008 graduate Margus Õunapuu’s (Film Tower Kuubis, EE) upcoming short feature GIRL WITH WHEELS directed by Ervin Õunapuu, has received support from the Estonian Film Foundation and will be presented at Euro-Connections in Clermont-Ferrand.
www.efsa.ee

Austrian EAVE 1997 graduate Knut Ogris is currently developing 3  features: FEUERNACHT, directed by Erich Hörtnagl. The script is financially supported by the Austrian Film Institute and written by Vera Mark, Erich Hörtnagl and Peter Berecz. Plot: Three types of women – three types of fate: Their commonness plays in front of the background of the fight for the autonomy of South Tyrol in the 1960ies. THE TEDDY BEAR SPRING, a family-entertainment-animated movie directed by Martin Duffy. The original-script is written by Birgit Johnson. Story: 9-year old Leni can´t cope with the grown-ups reality, so she makes up her own fantasy world. The film will be live action combined with CGI animation and traditional special effects for some of the creatures in 'Iceland'. TV documentary NAIROBI LOVE STORY directed and written by Maria Weber, supported by ORF and the culture-department of South-Tirol (I). Plot: “Romeo and Julia” in Nairobi: Margareth loves Eric, Eric loves Margareth. Although they have been together for five years, the struggles between their tribes stand in the way of their common future.
www.knutogris.tv


IN POST-PRODUCTION

EAVE 2005 project MAGMA directed by Pierre Vinour and starring Mehdi Nebbou, Natacha Régnier, Arly Jover and Aurélien Recoing with support from CinéCinéma, Limousin and Auvergne  Regions, is currently editing. The film is produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Aurélie Bordier (Les Enragés, F). Another of Aurélie’s productions has just wrapped shooting: short film UN ANGE PASSE, also directed by Pierre Vinour with Picardy Region and ARTE France support, is now in lab post-production.
www.lesenrages.com

EAVE 2005 project ME & MY NOSE has just finished shooting. The film is a Danish-Swedish co- production with support from MEDIA New Talent, Danish Television, Danish Film Institute, Swedish Television, Swedish Film Institute and NFTF. The film is produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Lise Saxtrup (Klassefilm, DK) and directed by Ziska Szemes. Co-producers are EAVE 2005 graduate Malin Kraft and EAVE 2005 graduate Charlotte Suarez Mazar (KRAFT FILM, Sweden).
www.klassefilm.dk

EAVE 2008 project THE KINO CARAVAN by Titus Munteanu, produced by EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu (Libra Film Productions, RO) has wrapped shooting in Romania. The project has won the Best Pitch Award at Baltic Event 2007 and has received a development grant from the SEE network.
www.librafilm.net

EAVE 2007 project THE TEMPTATIONS OF ST TONY by Veiko Ounpuu has finished shooting. The film is funded by Eurimages, MEDIA, Estonian Film Foundation, Swedish Film Institute, and Finnish Film Foundation. The shooting took place in various locations around Estonia. Ounpuu's project was awarded the MEDIA European Talent Award at the Cannes film festival. The producers are EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa, EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Aberg, Tero Kaukomaa, and Jesse Fryckman.
www.homelessbob.ee / www.atmo.se

Psychological thriller TWO EYES STARING (Zwart Water) by Elbert van Strien is currently in postproduction. The film is produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Claudia Brandt and Elbert van Strien (Accento Films, NL), executive producer is Ate de Jong. The film has been shot in Belgium and the Netherlands with support of the Dutch Filmfund, the Suppletion Fund, Independent Films and RTL. (Budget: 1.8 M EUR).
www.accentosales.com/accentofilms.html

Writer/director Conor McDermottroe’s debut feature OCCI VS. THE WORLD, based on his acclaimed play “Swansong”, is now in post-production. The film follows a young man as he searches for his father. The film is a German/ Irish co-production between German company Florin Film and Irish companies Zanzibar Films (EAVE 1998 graduate and National Coordinator Edwina Forkin) and Borderline Productions (EAVE 2000 graduate Tom Maguire). The Irish Film Board (IFB), Section 481, RTE, Eurimages, Kinowelt and ZDF/Arte are financing the film with assistance from MEDIA. LA based The Little Film Company is handling international sales.
www.zanzibarfilms.net

EAVE 1997 graduate Knut Ogris’ productions currently in postproduction: THE SECRET WAR, a feature documentary directed and written by Yoav Shamir, co-produced by SF Film Production Karoline Leth, Kopenhagen; Reveal Productions, Sandy Itkoff, L.A.; CinePhil, Philippa Kowarski, Tel Aviv, is going to be finalized until February. The film attempts to tackle contemporary anti-Semitism in different places around the world. It puts a face on the phenomenon, and shows how it is expressed in its most banal, recurring form. ICH SCHAFF ES, TV-doku soap directed by Alois Hawlik, consisting of 3 parts for 3sat in the beginning of 2009. This documentary is about people in Austria or in Europe. It tells stories about people who are going on the probably most exciting adventure of their lives – a new start from unemployment to establishing their own company.
www.knutogris.tv

DESERT FLOWER by Sherry Hormann, co-produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz (DOR FILM, AT) and Desert Flower Filmproduktion is now in postproduction. Peter Herrmann (Majestic, D), who won the Oscar for NOWHERE IN AFRICA was the delegate German producer. The film was supported by Eurimages.
MEIN KAMPF by Urs Odermatt, based on the famous play by Georges Taboris and co-produced by Schiwago film, Hugo film and Danny Krausz (DOR FILM, AT) is also in postproduction.
www.dor-film.com


ON SCREEN

INTHIERRYVIEW by Andy Bausch, a documentary about the famous Luxembourg actor Thierry van Werveke, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges has been released in the Grand Duchy on November 28, distributed by Paul Thilges Distributions.
www.ptd.lu

EAVE 2003 project BALKAN TRAFFIC by Markus Stein and Milan Pusić, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs has be released in Germany this month.
www.balkan-traffic.de

EAVE 1991 graduate Panos Karkanevatos’ (VERGI FILM PRODUCTIONS, GR) WELL KEPT SECRETS – ATHANASIA, that has just received the FIPRESCI award in Thessaloniki, has been released on December 4 in Greece.

The feature film MAX PINLIG by Lotte Svendsen premiered in Denmark December 5. The film is produced by Per Holst (Asta Film) and co-produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Henrik Underbjerg (Radiator Film, DK).
www.radiatorfilm.com

NORTH FACE by director Philipp Stölzl, produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz (DOR Film, AT) has been released in the UK on December 12. The film has so far been sold to 12 key territories.
www.dor-film.com

LOVE COMES LATELY by Jan Schütte, based on Isaac Bashevis Singer’s short stories and produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz (DOR Film, AT) has been released in Austria on December 19.
www.dor-film.com

Short film UN ANGE PASSE, directed by Pierre Vinour with Picardy Region and ARTE France support, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Aurélie Bordier (Les Enragés, F) will have its premiere on December 20 in Paris (cinema Balzac).
www.lesenrages.com

ON TV

EAVE 2007 graduate Ewa Pytka (Akili Film Production, PL) has sold her documentary BREAKING THE SILENCE about women's right to Planete. The premiere broadcasting was on November 1 at 22:25.

Short film LEBEN AUF HOCHGLANZ by Franziska Runge and Dirk Hendler was broadcast on December 16 at 0h40 on German regional channel MDR. The film has been produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs (Hoferichter und Jacobs, D).
www.hoferichterjacobs.de 


ON DVD

Documentary about Christof Wackernagel DER WEISSE MIT DEM SCHWARZBROT by Jonas Grosch, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Ulrike Zimmermann (MMM Film, D), is now available on DVD.
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxxz_dAbGW8
Webseite: www.mmmfilm.de/der_weisse_mit_dem_schwarzbrot/
Orders: www.mmm-shop.com
 

FESTIVALS & MARKETS

Malaga MERCADOC (December 1-3)

Born in Malaga 2008
- MANUEL Y ELISA, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Fernanda del Nido
- UNIDAD 25, associate producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Fernanda del Nido
www.festivaldemalaga.com


Havanna Festival of Latin American Cinema (December 2-10)

Feature Competition
- LA SANGRE BROTA, co-producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Claire Lajoumard and EAVE 2007 graduate Hans Eddy Schreiber’s company Neue Cameo Film (producer: Ole Landsjöaasen)
Documentary Competition
- UNIDAD 25, associate producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Fernanda del Nido
Opera Prima
- EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
- SALAMANDRA producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
Cine Alemán
- CLOUD 9, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
www.habanafilmfestival.com


Dubai International Film Festival (December 11-18)

Arabian Nights
- EAVE 2006 project KHAMSA by Karim Dridi
The Cinema of the World
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-producers: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin
- SALAMANDRA, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
-  SNOW, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
The Cinema of AsiaAfrica
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
- TEZA, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate & French National Coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2000 graduate Marie-Michèle Cattelain
Arabic Documentaries
- CHINA IS STILL FAR, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate & French National Coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2000 graduate Marie-Michèle Cattelain
www.dubaifilmfest.com


Other festivals in December:

MAJKEN, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Helene Lindholm, has been selected for International competition in Clermont-Ferrand (France).
www.atmo.se

LES BALLETS DE CI DE LA directed by Alain Platel, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nézan (LESFILMSDUPRESENT, F) has been selected for the London WHAT'S ART DOCS Festival – ICA, as well as Patrice’s production APERGHIS, STORM BENEAUTH A SKULL directed by Catherine Maximoff.
www.lesfilmsdupresent.fr

Documentary SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK EAVE co-produced by 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer (Dschoint Ventschr, CH) and EAVE 2008 graduate Helle Ulsteen (Kamoli Films, DK), has co-produced the which is screening in various festivals this month: Human Rights, Human Wrongs, Oslo, Watch and Change, Jaan Tõnisson Institute, Tallinn, One World Festival, Plovdiv, and Bahamas International Film Festival, Nassau.
www.shadowoftheholybook.com

Documentary HOCHBURG DER SÜNDEN by Thomas Lauterbach was shown (and awarded Best Documentary) at the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg. The film that was supported by German regional fund MFG Baden-Württemberg was produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik (Indifilm, D).
www.indifilm.de

Also screened at the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg was feature NACHT VOR AUGEN by Brigitte Bertele, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (noirfilm, D).
www.noirfilm.de


AWARDS

IDFA
- BURMA VJ – REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY, produced by EAVE group leader EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller (Magic Hour Films, DK) in co-production with EAVE 2008 graduate Helle Ulsteen (Kamoli Films, DK), sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel (First Hand films, D/CH), won the Movies that Matter award and the Joris Ivens Award and came in 3rd place on the Audience Award
- CONSTANTIN AND ELENA, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel (First Hand films, D/CH), won the First Appearance Award
- FORGETTING DAD by Rick Minnich and Matthew Sweetwood, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs, received the Special Jury Award
www.idfa.nl


Tallin Black Nights Film Festiva
The award of the jury of International Federation of Film Clubs (FICC) as well as a Special Mention went to THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER, producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar
www.poff.ee

International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg
- The FILM CULTURE AWARD at the International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg 2008 went to EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel.
- The Ecumenical Film Prize & Recommendations of the Jury of Cinema Owners went to BORDERLINE by Lyne Charlebois, produced by EAVE 2008 graduate Félize Frappier & company MAX FILMS (CAN).
www.iffmh.de


Sergei Dvortsevoy's TULPAN took the Golden Peacock for Best Film and Silver Peacock for Most Promising Director at the International Film Festival of India in Goa. TULPAN has been co-produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer (Cobra Films, CH).
At the Gijón International Film Festival, Sergei Dvortsevoy was also awarded Best Director.
http://www.cobrafilm.ch/front_content.php?idcat=77

Documentary HOCHBURG DER SÜNDEN by Thomas Lauterbach has been awarded Best Documentary at the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg in Stutgart. The film was supported by German regional fund MFG Baden-Württemberg and produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik (Indifilm, D) in co-production with regional channel SWR.
www.indifilm.de


DECEMBER SPECIALS

CALL FOR CASTING: ACTORS FROM EASTERN EUROPE WANTED!

For the feature THE WHITE ROAD, EAVE 1991 graduate Grant Keir and company The Casting Scene, an online casting service in the UK, are looking for actors from Eastern Europe.  The Budget is 1.2 million sterling. Auditions close on 19th December 2008. Actors interested would need to sign up to the site (free at this stage) and record an audition for THE WHITE ROAD using a simple webcam.  The script is posted on the site with instructions as to which scenes to audition with. Contact: james@thecastingscene.com
They are looking for actors and actresses who can speak English, but also are real natives of Estonia, Russia, Ukraine, Poland etc. 
http://dev.thecastingscene.com/

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EAVE PLUS NEWS

EAVE Plus workshop in Dubai

For the second time in a row, the Dubai International Film Festival and EAVE are offering a high quality professional development programme for film producers from Arab countries from December 12 to 16 in Dubai. The five day workshop is delivered through a mix of plenary sessions, individual meetings, group discussions, expert panels and case studies. Participants’ projects will be discussed in individual meetings with script consultants as well as with each other in group sessions. This follows the very successful first edition, which took place at the Festival in 2007.
The groups are led by EAVE Head of studies Alan Fountain and EAVE producer Roshanak Behesht Nedjad. Among the various other EAVE consultants are Jacques Akchoti, Meinolf Zuhorst, Jacques Bidou, Marianne Dumoulin, John Durie, Liz Rosenthal and Dora Bouchoucha. EAVE Workshop Manager Esther Krausz will also be present.
www.dubaifilmfest.com/en/industry-office/professional-coaching-for-producers.html


EAVE Latin America / PUENTES – deadline extended!

For the first time in 2009, EAVE and Buenos Aires Lab will organize a common workshop for Latin American and European producers in Buenos Aires from March 26-30, 2009. PUENTES will enable fiction film producers from Europe and Latin America to work together in a five-day workshop. It will offer high level professional development and working on the development of European and Latin American projects, exploring the audiovisual market and operating conditions in both continents. Target group: experienced & successful producers in their own countries wishing to work on an international scale, to create long term creative & business relationships between Europe & Latin America. Application deadline: January 15, 2009.
www.eave.org
www.bafici.gov.ar

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The EAVE Programme is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Film Fund Luxembourg, the Nordic Baltic Film Fund, Filmfonds Wien, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, MFG-Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, the Berlinale Co-production Market and the partners who have hosted the workshops since 1988.

EAVE festival & market NEWS - November 2008

Sheffield Doc / Fest (November 5 – 9)

Regime Change
- SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK, producer: EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer
Other strands
- CORRIDOR #8, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel
- COLD WAVES, producer : EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon
www.sheffdocfest.com

Mar del Plata (November 6 - 16)

International Competition
- BACK SOON, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
- THE STRANGER IN ME, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards
Latin American Competition
- SALAMANDRA, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin
First Films
- THE VISITOR, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Aleksi Bardy
- BLIND LOVES, sales: EAVE 2006 graduate Susanne Guggenberger (Autlook Filmsales) New Auteurs
- THE MARKET, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
- THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER, producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar
www.mardelplatafilmfest.com

Chp:dox (November 7-16)

Dox Award Competition
- BURMA VJ, producer: EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller
- MAGGIE IN WONDERLAND, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Anna Byvald
Sound and Vision Award Competition
- SUNNY'S TIME NOW, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges
www.cphdox.dk

Kolkata Film Festival (November 10 - 17)

Cinema International
- LEMON TREE, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause’s company Heimatfilm
 (producer: Bettina Brokemper)
- THE TRAP, co-producer: EAVE 1992 graduate Jörg Rothe
www.kff.in


FilmFestival Cottbus (November 11-16)

Feature Film Competition
- DELTA, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
- CROSSING DATES, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu
- MUCHA, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
Short Film Competition
- ALEXANDRA, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon
Specials
- THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER, producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar
Spectrum
- MIDSUMMER MADNESS, producers: EAVE 2001 graduate Markus Fischer, EAVE 2002 graduate Guntis Trekteris
New Cinema from the Baltics
- I WAS HERE, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate & Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy
- THE COLLECTRESS, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene
Children and Youth films
- LOTTE FROM GADGETVILLE, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate & EAVE Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos

Connecting Cottbus

EAVE was delighted tob e for the first time official partner of Connecting Cottbus that celebrated ist 10th anniversary this year. In the framework oft this partnership, 3 EAVE graduates were invited to Cottbus: Mikko Tenhunen, Margus Ounapuu and Paul-Boris Lobadowsky.

The following projects produced by EAVE producers were selected:
- ADALBERT’S DREAM, delegate producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
- LOVE IS LIKE VENGEANCE, producer: EAVE 1999 graduates Grant Keir & Steve Bowden
- MIDSUMMER NIGHT, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene
- GRAM OF LOVE, author: EAVE team member Tanika Sajatovic, line producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Petra Vidmar
- STOPOVER, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Markus Fischer
- THE BEAR, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu
http://filmfestival.pool-production.de

Mannheim Meetings (November 12 – 16)

- THE COLD FRONT IS COMING FROM THE WEST, p: EAVE 2005 graduate Emöke Vagasi
- EAVE 2008 project LINDA’S WATER, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Frédéric Chanteux
- KURDISHLOVER, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan
- VIGILANTE, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Erik Magnusson
- STELLA, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Anne Beresford
www.iffmh.de

Ljubljana International Film Festival (November 12 – 23)

Panorama
- I AM FROM TITOV VELES, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska, co-producers: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi, EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
- JULIA, producer: EAVE 1989 graduate Hubert Toint
- KINO LIKA, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic
- RESTLESS, co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
- SNOW, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
Perspectives
- BETTER THINGS, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Samm Haillay, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, associate producer: EAVE 2002 graduate David Smith
Short Films
- VEM aka I KNOW, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar
http://en.liffe.si/home/

Black Nights Film Festival (November 13 – December 7)

EurAsia Competition
- SNOW, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
Tridens Baltic Feature Film Competition
- I WAS HERE, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate & Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy
- ALYOSHA, director: EAVE 2006 graduate Meelis Muhu
12 selected titles
- CLOUD 9, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter Rommel
Panorama
- LEMON TREE, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause’s company Heimatfilm
 (producer: Bettina Brokemper)
- THE RAINBOWMAKER, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Oliver Damian
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
- STAGES, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit
Forum
- ABSURDISTAN, director & producer : EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer
- ELDORADO, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- DELTA, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
- YURI’S DAY, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
BMW group presents
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-producers: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj
Nikitin
New Argentine Cinema
- SALAMANDRA, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin
Nordic Lights
- TERRIBLY HAPPY, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Thomas Gammeltoft
- BLACK ICE, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Karle Aho
Human, for Real
- SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK, producer: EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer
doc@poff
- BLIND LOVES, sales: EAVE 2006 graduate Susanne Guggenberger (Autlook Filmsales)
Youth Films
- I WAS HERE, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate & Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy
- BEN X, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
Closing Film
- PANDORA’S BOX, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi

Baltic Event Co-Production Market

EAVE is proud to continue its partnership with the prestigious Baltic Event Co-production Market. In the framework of this partnership, 3 EAVE 2008 projects have been selected.
- EAVE 2008 project ILLUMINATED NIGHT, prod.: EAVE 2008 graduate Anna Katchko
- EAVE 2008 project THE ENTHUSIAST, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Guntis Trekteris, EAVE 2008 graduate Marta Bite
- EAVE 2008 project YOUNG SOPHIE BELL, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Sandra Harms
- ONE STEP BEHIND THE SERAPHIM, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon

Baltic Event Coming Soon
- 35 MM, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene
- ANARCHY IN ZIRMUNAI, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene
- THE TEMPTATION OF ST TONY, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
www.poff.ee

Marrakech International Film Festival (November 14 -22)

Competition
- TEARS OF APRIL, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy, associate producer is EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Sucksdorff
40 Years of British Cinema
- THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
www.festival-marrakech.info

Thessaloniki International Film Festival (November 14 – 23)

Division and Unity: Cinema in the Middle East
- SALT OF THIS SEA, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin
Independence days
- TEZA, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate & French National Coordinator Philippe Avril
- EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter Rommel
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
- TERRIBLY HAPPY, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Thomas Gammeltoft
- KISSES, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher
Greek Features
- EAVE 1991 graduate Panos Karkanevatos’ Well Kept Secrets – Athanasia
Balkan Survey
- SNOW, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
Contemporary Turkish Cinema
- PANDORA’S BOX, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
Romanian Shorts
- ALEXANDRA, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon
- CHRONICLE OF A DEATH FORETOLD, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Tudor Giurgiu
- HOME, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon

Crossroads
Project THE TREE AND THE SWING, directed by Maria Douza and produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Eleni Atsikbasis (Phos Productions, Greece) has been selected to the Crossroads Co-production Market.
www.filmfestival.gr


Gijon Film Festival (November 20 -29)

Competition
- ELDORADO, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter Rommel
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
Enfant Terrible Competition
- DUNYA & DESIE, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit
Documentary Competition:
- BLIND LOVES, sales: EAVE 2006 graduate Susanne Guggenberger (Autlook Filmsales)
Una parte del cielo
 - HOUNDED, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Ulrike Zimmermann
- PANDORA’S BOX, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
www.gijonfilmfestival.com

IDFA (November 20 – 30)

Joris Evens competition
- BURMA VJ – REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY, producer: EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller, sales agent: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel (First Hand Films)
- FORGETTING DAD, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Olaf Jacobs
- CONSTANTIN AND ELENA, sales agent: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel (First Hand Films)
- UNIDAD 25, associate producer: EAVE 2008 participant Fernanda del Nido
Movies that Matter competition
- BURMA VJ – REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY, sales agent: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel (First Hand Films)
Premieres of the Lowlands
- JACK, THE BALKANS & I, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin, co-producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Ellen de Waele
- TRANSIT DUBAI, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin
Best of the Fests
- BACK TO AFRICA, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter Rommel
Reflecting Images
- LOOK INTO THE WORLD THROUGH MY EYES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisha Juricic

MEDIA Training Carrousel
MEDIA Desk Netherlands in cooperation with MEDIA Desk Flanders and the FORUM organized the MEDIA Training Carousel during the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam. On November 24, one to one meetings with experts from MEDIA supported (documentary) trainings were scheduled for interested documentary producers. EAVE documentary consultant Sylvia Stevens was available to meet attending professionals.
www.idfa.nl

Stockholm International Film Festival (November 20 - 30)

Open Zone
- FEUERHERZ by Luigi Falorni, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer
- BACK SOON, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
- JULIA, producer: EAVE 1989 graduate Hubert Toint
Asian Images
- ABSURDISTAN, director & producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer
Stockholm XIX Competition
- BETTER THINGS, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Samm Haillay, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, associate producer: EAVE 2002 graduate David Smith
www.stockholmfilmfestival.se

Torino Film Fest (November 21 – 29)

Out of competition
- LEMON TREE, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause’s company Heimatfilm
 (producer: Bettina Brokemper)
Internazionale.doc
- UNIDAD 25, associate producer: EAVE 2008 participant Fernanda del Nido
www.torinofilmfest.org

Foyle Film Festival (November 21 -29)

New Irish and Northern Irish Film
KISSES, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher
www.foylefilmfestival.org

International Film Festival of India, Goa (November 22 – December 2)

International Competition
- TULPAN by Sergey Dvortsevoy, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
Cinema of the World
- ABSURDISTAN directedy and produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer
- SCHATTENWELT by Connie Walther, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Michael Jungfleisch
- SNOW by Aida Begic, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
- BLACK ICE, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Karle Aho
Iffi.gov.in

Festival des 3 Continents (November 25 – December 2)

Official competition
- LA CHINE EST ENCORE LOIN by Malek Bensmaïl, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate & French National Coordinator Philipp Avril
- EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter
30 years Montgolfières d’Or
- LUNA PAPA, prod.: EAVE 1992 graduate & French National Coordinator Philippe Avril
Produire au Sud et après
- SALAMANDRA, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin
- LA SANGRE BROTA, co-producers: EAVE 2000 graduate Claire Lajoumard & EAVE
2007 graduate Hans Eddy Schreiber’s company Neue Cameo Film (producer: Ole
Landsjöaasen) 
www.3continents.com

Francophone Co-production meetings Paris (November 26 – 28)

EAVE is delighted to be partner of the “Rencontres de Coproduction Francophone”.
During the co-production meetings, EAVE experts Jani Thiltges and Patrick Sobelman were available for individual meetings with the selected projects and producers.

Among the selected projects were:
- ELLE NE PLEURE PAS, ELLE CHANTE, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Isabelle Truc
- ILLEGAL, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- L’HOTE, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Olivier Charvet
- L’OREILLE INTERNE, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jean des Forêts
- MUTATION, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille

In addition, a Dutch delegation was attending the “Rencontres”, among them EAVE producers Denis Vaslin, Stienette Bosklopper, Leontine Petit and Dutch EAVE National Coordinator Ellis Driessen.
www.sodec.gouv.qc.ca


Other festivals

Documentary MANUEL Y ELISA, produced by EAVE 2008 graduate Fernanda del Nido (Tic Tac Producciones, E) has been selected for the CINEUROPA Film Festival in Santiago de Compostela.
www.manuelyelisa.com

BURMA VJ – REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY by Anders Østergaard, produced by EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller (Magic Hour Films, DK) Jiffest in Djakarta.
www.magichourfilms.dk

BETTER THINGS by Duane Hopkins, produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Samm Haillay, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, associate producer: EAVE 2002 graduate David Smith, has been selected for the AFI this month.
www.flyingmoon.com

TULPAN by Sergey Dvortsevoi, co-produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer has been shown this month at the Camerimage festival in Lodz, at the Estoril Film Festival, and at the AIF (American Film Institute) Fest, Los Angeles.

LA REINA DEL CONDON, produced by EAVE graduates Karin Koch and Werner Schweizer has been shown at the Terre des Femmes Festival in Tübingen, Germany.
www.dschointventschr.ch

EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer (Dschoint Ventschr, CH) has also co-produced the documentary SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK which is screening in various festivals this month: International Festival of Cinema of Cancún-Mayan Riviera and Playa del Carmen, Sheffield International Documentary Festival, Sheffield, One World, Bratislava, Human Rights Film Festival PRAVO LJUDSKI, Amnesty International Human Rights Film Festival, Toronto, Arctic & Fabulous Film Festival, Jyväskylä, Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul, South East Passage, Rome.
www.shadowoftheholybook.com

WEIT WEG VON HIER - LEJOS DE ACA by Kristina Konrad, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Usrula Scribano (Weltfilm, D), has been selected for competition at the “Duisburger Filmwoche” in Germany.
www.weltfilm.com

Documentary BARTOKS REQUIEM by Jan Lorenzen has premiered on November 6 at the “Duisburger Filmwoche”. The film produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs will be released in Germany in March 2009.
www.hoferichterjacobs.de

Filmer à Tout Prix, the International Debut Film Competition, features Sonia Pastecchia’s CAMPO SANTO, produced by EAVE 2007 graduates Isabelle Truc & Serge Guez and SAINT-MARCEL – TOUT ET RIEN VOIR, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Nadège Hasson and EAVE 2004 graduate Geneviève De Bauw.

SAINT-MARCEL – TOUT ET RIEN VOIR, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Nadège Hasson and EAVE 2004 graduate Geneviève De Bauw has also been selected this month at the Montreal RIDM (International Documentary Film Meetings).
www.thankyouandgoodnight.be

THE COLLECTRESS by Kristina Buožyte, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene
(Tremora, LT), has been selected for Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival, Cottbus Film Festival, Lübeck Film Festival and the Cairo Film Festival.
www.tremora.com

Documentary ÜBER WASSER by Udo Maurer, produced by EAVE 1994 graduate and Austrian National Coordinator Erich Lackner (Lotus Film, A) in co-production with EAVE 2003 graduate Anne Schroeder (Samsa Film, L), has been selected for the official programme of the Rencontres Internationales du Documentaire de Montréal this month.
www.lotus-film.co.at

Documentary HOCHBURG DER SÜNDEN by Thomas Lauterbach was shown at the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg, at the Kassel Documentary- and Videofest, as well as at the FILMZ – Festival of German cinema. The film that was supported by German regional fund MFG Baden-Württemberg was produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik (Indifilm, D).
www.indifilm.de

SCENES FROM A WILD BOAR HUNT directed by Claudio Pazienza and produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan (LESFILMSDUPRESENT, F) has been shown at the Taiwan International Documentary Festival in the section International Shorts.
www.lesfilmsdupresent.fr

LES BALLETS DE CI DE LA directed by Alain Platel and produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan (LESFILMSDUPRESENT, F) has been selected at the Nottingham Nottdance festival this month.
www.lesfilmsdupresent.fr

KINO LIKA, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic (Kinorama, HR) was screened at Funchal Film Festival in Portugal this month (international competition), as well as at the Auteurs Film Festival in Belgrade, Serbia. It was also screened in the official competition programme of 30th edition of Montpellier Film Festival where it won the young people's award.
www.kinorama.hr

EAVE 2005 project LA PALOMA, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Sigrid Faltin (White Pepper, D) in co-production with French Seppia has been selected at the Roshd International Film Festival Teheran and the Leeds International Film Festival this month.
www.whitepepper.de

FUORI DALLE CORDE by Fulvio Bernasconi, co-produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli (Ventura Film, CH). has been screened at the Osaka European Film Festival as „Premiere Screening“.
www.oeff.jp

NACHT VOR AUGEN by Brigitte Maria Bertele, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (noifilm, D) has been shown at the Filmfestival: „Ausnahme_Zustand – Verrückt nach Leben“ in Heidelberg and at the Kinofest Lünen.
www.noirfilm.de
   

EAVE NEWSLETTER November 2008

EAVE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:
*** 3 EAVE projects currently in postproduction***
*** 10 films produced by EAVE graduates racing for the Oscars***
*** Multiple awards for TULPAN, THE CLASS, KINO LIKA, THE STRANGER IN ME, TEZA, and many more...***

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IN DEVELOPMENT / PRE-PRODUCTION

MEDIA - i2i funding

Among the projects selected for i2i AUDIOVISUAL support from the MEDIA Programme of the European Union are 8 projects produced by EAVE graduates:
- FRAGMENTS OF GRACE, by EAVE 1995 graduate Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert (ma.ja.de, D), co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye (Entre Chien et Loup, B), EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit (Lemming Film, NL), Bo Films
- LA REGATE, by Bernard Bellefroid, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges and EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
- DIAMANT 13 by Gilles Béat, delegate producer: EAVE 1992 graduate & president Jani Thiltges’ production company Samsa Film (L), Artémis Productions (B), MK2 (F), co-producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye (Liaison Cinématographique, F)
- ROBBER GIRLS, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Tunje Berns (Dschoint Ventschr, CH), co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges (Paul Thiltges Distributions, L)
- A RATIONAL SOLUTION, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Swedish National Coordinator Helena Danielsson (Hepp Film, SE)
- LITTLE FOXES, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland (Samson Films
- VERSO, producer: producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Donato Rotunno (Tarantula, L)
- DER FÜRSORGER, producer: EAVE 1989 graduate Rolf Schmid (Fama Film, CH), co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges (Paul Thiltges Distributions, L), Elsani Film (D)
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/index_en.htm

Croatian Audio-Visual Center

The Croatian Audio-Visual Center has selected 17 feature film projects for financing. Among them, 5 projects produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic (Kinorama, HR): MOTHER OF ASPHALT by Dalibor Matanic, SHOT by Robert Orhel, FOREST CREATURES by Ivan Goran Vitez, COCO AND THE GHOSTS by Daniel Kusan and EAVE 2007 project FIRST OF ALL FELICIA by Razvan Radulescu and Melissa de Raaf, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon (Hi Film, RO) in co-production with EAVE 1992 graduate & French National Coordinator Philippe Avril (Unlimited, F) and Ankica Juric Tilic.
www.havc.hr

FFA

The German national film fund FFA has granted script funding to 2 projects produced by EAVE graduates: WOLODJA by Helma Sanders-Brahms, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer (Egoli Tossell Film) and DER FEINDLICHE KOMBATTANT by Hossein Pourseifi, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause’s company Heimatfilm.
FFA production funding went to 5 films produced by EAVE graduates: BON APPÉTIT by David Pinillos, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer (Egoli Tossell Film), HIDDEN
by Agnieszka Holland, producer:  EAVE 2002 graduate Leander Carell (Schmidtz Katze Filmkollektiv), RENN, WENN DU KANNST by Dietrich Brüggemann, producer: EAVE 2008 graduate Sabine Holtgreve (Wüste Film Ost), HACKER – ZWISCHEN UTOPIE UND TERRORISMUS by Alexander Biedermann, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs (Hoferichter & Jacobs), LIFE’S A BATTLE by Agostino Imondi, Dietmar Ratsch, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate graduate Boris Michalski (noirfilm, D).
www.ffa.de

Film I Väst

Swedish regional film fund Film I Väst has invested SEK9m into four new feature films by local directors, including two major co-productions with Europe. Daniel Espinosa is going to bring to the silver screen Jens Lapidus’s book QUICK CASH, which sold over 450,000 copies in Sweden and was published in 18 countries. The thriller produced by Tre Vänner (EAVE 2003 graduate Helen Ahlsson, EAVE 2003 graduate Fredrik Haraldson) will start shooting in spring 2009.
SIMON AND THE OAKS, to be directed by Björn Runge in autumn of 2009, is based on Marianne Fredriksson’s bestselling book, which sold 4.5 million copies in Europe. The film with a budget of around €5m is produced by Christer Nilsson for Göta Film with Denmark’s Per Holst Film, Norway’s Filmkameratene and Germany’s Schmidtz Katze Produktion (EAVE 2002 graduate Leander Carell).
www.filmivast.se


Ibermedia supports AGUA FRIA DEL MAR, co-produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Jean des Forêts (Les Films du Requin, F) and EAVE 2008 graduate Fernanda del Nido (Tic Tac Producciones, E). The project has also obtained the Arte-Cofinova (65,000 €) and will be shot in February 2009. The 7 country-co-production WHAT FAULT IS THAT OF THE TOMATO?, also produced by Fernanda del Nido, has also received Ibermedia funding.
www.programaibermedia.com

German regional film fund Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg has awarded EAVE 2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach (Kinoherz, D) with 20,000 Euro project development funding for his feature project UTOPIA.

EAVE 20008 participant Ellen De Waele has just been granted production support by the Flanders Audiovisual Fund for her Dutch, Belgian, German co-production BROWNIAN MOVEMENT by director Nanouk Leopold. Delegate producer is EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper from Dutch Circe Films.
www.serendipityfilms.be

Two projects produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin have been granted support by the Dutch Film Fund:  DOUBLE TAKE by Johan Grimonprez, an 80 min. docu-fiction. The film will be a Belgian, German, Dutch, French co-production by Zapomatik (EAVE 2006 graduate Emmy Oost) with NiKo Film (Hanneke van der Tas, EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards), Volya Films (EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin) and Les Films du Présent (EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nézan). Delivery is scheduled for winter 2009.
KOERAAJ, KOOERAJ by Marjoleine Boonstra, has also been supported by the Dutch Film Fund with a production grant en production. The feature is produced by Volya Films (EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin) in co-production with EAVE 2006 graduate Emmy Oost.
www.volyafilms.nl


IN PRODUCTION

EAVE 2008 project THE KINO CARAVAN by Titus Munteanu, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Tudor Giurgiu (Libra Film Productions, RO) is currently shooting in Romania. The project has won the Best Pitch Award at Baltic Event 2007 and has received a development grant from the SEE network.
www.librafilm.net

EAVE 2007 project THE TEMPTATIONS OF ST TONY by Veiko Ounpuu is currently shooting. The film is funded by Eurimages, the MEDIA programme, the Estonian Film Foundation, the Swedish Film Institute, and the Finnish Film Foundation. The shooting started on October 23 and lasts until November 30 in various locations around Estonia. Ounpuu's project was awarded the "European Talent Award" at the Cannes film festival. The producers are EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa, EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Aberg, Tero Kaukomaa, and Jesse Fryckman.
www.homelessbob.ee / www.atmo.se

Stillking Films and Fine & Mellow (EAVE 1993 graduate Thomas Gammeltoft) are planning an English-language remake of the Danish film TERRIBLY HAPPY, with Henrik Ruben Genz remaining in the director's chair. The film would be a scene-by-scene remake of the original, which won the Crystal Globe at Karlovy Vary last summer and Stillman and Thomas Gammeltoft of Fine & Mellow will produce. The producers want to shoot in the US and are eyeing Louisiana as a possible location. Ideally, the film would be ready in the second half of 2009.
www.finemellow.dk

AUTONAUTS ON THE COSMOROUTE, a feature by Werner Penzel, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan (LESFILMSDUPRESENT, F) has been supported by the Region Bourgogne with a production grant.
KURDISHLOVER, a feature documentary directed by Clarisse Hahn, also produced by Patrice Nezan has been granted production support by the Region Ile de France.
www.lesfilmsdupresent.fr

EAVE 1997 graduate Sophie Shoukens is currently shooting MARIEKE, MARIEKE, produced by EAVE 1990 graduate & Belgian National Coordinator Jan Roekens (Sophimages, B) in co-production with OF2B (F) and Moneypenny (D). The film is supported by the French community of Belgium, MDM, VAF and the MEDIA programme of the European Community.
www.sophimages.be

DARKNESS, a new film from veteran Czech director Juraj Herz, has begun shooting at the end of last month. Lenka Krobotova will star opposite Ivan Franek. Shooting is taking place in the western part of the Czech Republic and will last two months. The film will see its premiere in summer 2009. The dark thriller is produced by Czech Film Studio Gatteo (EAVE 2007 graduate David Synek).
www.gatteofilms.com


IN POSTPRODUCTION

EAVE 2004 project THE MIRACLE SELLER has just finished shooting. The film is a Polish-Swedish co-production with support from Polish Television, Performance Marketing Group and Polish Film Institute. Co-producers are Tomas Eskilsson from Film I Vast and Fredrik Zander from Republiken. The film is being produced and directed by EAVE 2004 graduate Jaroslaw Szoda (FABRYKA, Pl) and Boleslaw Pawica, Jaroslaw Szoda is also the D.O.P. Mitko Panov wrote the the script based on the original idea by Grzegorz Loszewski.
www.fabrykafilmow.pl

EAVE 2007 project THE BLACKS, directed by Zvonimir Juric and Goran Devic and produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic (Kinorama, HR) has finished shooting. The pitch: War. A city under the siege. The truce has been recently signed, and the squad known as the „Blacks“, who used to do the dirty jobs, needs to be disbanded. Ivo, the squad commander who has lost three of his soldiers, prepares the action to retrieve their dead bodies from the swamp in which they got killed and, despite the ceasefire, blow up the dam, thus causing a great damage to the enemy. The survived members of the squad, tortured by their personal doubts and guilt, move into action. On the battlefield, they find the enemy they are searching for is in the place they least expect – inside themselves.
www.kinorama.hr

EAVE 2007 project LOW LIGHTS, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene (Tremora, LT) is currently in postproduction. The film was supported by the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture (405,000 EUR), Filmstiftung NRW (250,000 EUR) and Eurimages (160,000 EUR). The project has also been backed by the German federal film fund (DFFF).
www.tremora.com

On November 6, Sven Taddicken finished shooting on his forthcoming film, PIRATES OF THE BALTIC SEA. The title explores the myth of pirates and best friends Klaus Störtebeker and Gödeke Michels in early 15th century Friesland. Penned by Matthias Pacht, this compelling film was shot over 40 days on three large period ships in the Schleswig-Holstein region, in Stralsund and the surrounding area, (where medieval Hamburg was reconstructed) and finally in the Danish city of Nyköbing. The film is produced by Wüste Film (EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel) and will be released domestically by Warner Bros next year. 
www.wuestefilm.de

Documentary MEN FOR HIRE for HBO, directed and produced by EAVE graduate Edward Porembny (AMP Polska, Pl) has just wrapped up production. Its 1st emission has been already programmed during the End of the Year Holiday.
www.amppolska.com


CURRENTLY PLAYING

Feature film PENELOPE by Ben Ferris, an Australian-Croatian co-production (producers: Artemis Projects & Focus Media), produced by EAVE 2008 participant Irena Marković (Focus Media, Croatia) has had its Croatian premiere this month.
www.focusmedia.hr

After a successful release in Switzerland and Holland, CLOUD NINE, directed by Andreas Dresen and produced by EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter Rommel (Rommel Film, D) and Senator (D) has now been released in France on November 5 and in Belgium on November 26.
www.wolke9.senator.de

Lance Daly’s third feature film KISSES went on nationwide release in Ireland from November 21. The feature that has charmed audiences at international film festivals was produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher and Les Kelly (Fastnet Films, IRL) and co-produced by Zentropa (S). The film is funded by the Irish Film Board.
www.fastnetfilms.com

CAGES by Olivier Masset-Depasse, produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Versus Production, B) has been released in France on November 26.
www.versusproductions.be

THE MARKET – A TALE OF TRADE by Bob Hopkins, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad (Flying Moon, D) is playing in German cinemas since November 27.
www.flyingmoon.com

Docu-fiction ESCAPE FROM THE CALL CENTER by Federico Rizzo, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Franco Bocca Gelsi and EAVE 1989 graduate Gianfilippo Pedote (Gagarin scarl, IT) will have a sneak premiere in Milano on November 30. The film is supported by Provincia di Milano, Comune di Milano, CGIL Lombardia.
www.fugadalcallcenter.com


BOX OFFICE

René Vilbre’s I WAS HERE, this year’s Estonian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar nominations, should be in the top 10 films in Estonia in 2008, with over 43,000 admissions since September 12. The film, adapted for the screen by Ilmar Raag (director of THE CLASS) and based on the award-winning novel by Sass Henno, I WAS HERE: First Arrest, is “about growing up, about boys who start a game but don’t realize how serious it suddenly gets, nor that starting over is no longer possible,” said the filmmaker. The drama was produced by EAVE 2004 graduate & Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos (Amrion Film), in co-production with Finland’s Helsinki Filmi (EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy). Vilbre and Sildos’ previous collaboration on MAT THE CAT was also a domestic hit in 2005 (30,000 admissions for a fifth position at the top ten). Sildos is currently in pre-production on Raag’s new film and EAVE 2004 project ONE MORE CROISSANT, co-produced by France’s TS Production. Shooting is scheduled for 2009.
www.amrion.ee

ON TV

WEIT WEG VON HIER - LEJOS DE ACA by Kristina Konrad, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Usrula Scribano (Weltfilm, D), has been shown on 3sat on November 9 at 22h05.
www.weltfilm.com

Reportage series WILDNIS AUS MENSCHENHAND by Dr. Heribert Schöller, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs (Hoferichter & Jacobs, D) was broadcast on German regional channel MDR on November 8, 15, 22 and 29 at 11h40.
On November 11, 18 and 25 at 20h45, the three-part reportage series RAUS AUS HARTZ IV, also produced by Olaf Jacobs, was shown on MDR.
www.hoferichterjacobs.de

AUF NUMMER SICHER by David Dietl, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach (Kinoherz, D) was broadcast on November 17 on German public channel ZDF at 23h55 in the framework of the series „Brave New World“.
www.kinoherz.de


NOMINATIONS

OSCARS – ENTRIES FOR BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM & BEST SHORT LIVE ACTION FILM
A record 67 countries have submitted films for consideration in the foreign language film category for the 81st Academy Awards. Among them, nine films produced by EAVE graduates:
- PALESTINE: Salt of This Sea, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin
- NETHERLANDS: DUNYA AND DESIE, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit
- BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVIAN: SNOW, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
- MACEDONIA: I AM FROM TITOV VELES, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska, co-producers: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi, EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
- BELGIUM : ELDORADO, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- LUXEMBOURG: ARABIAN NIGHTS, producer: EAVE president and 1992 graduate Jani Thiltges’ company Samsa Film (producer: Claude Waringo) 
- SLOVAKIA: BLIND LOVES, sales: EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger
- ESTONIA: I WAS HERE, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate & Estonian national coordinator Riina Sildos
- KAZAKHSTAN: TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer

In addition, short film NEW BOY is in the running for Best Short Live Action Film. NEW BOY has been produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Tamara Anghie.

Nominations will be announced on January 22, 2009 and the Oscar will be presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Centre.
www.oscars.com


EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
The European Film Academy announced the nominees for the 21st edition of the European Film Awards at the Seville European Film Festival. The 1,800 EFA members will now vote for the winners, who will be announced at the ceremony held on December 6 in Copenhagen. Among the nominees is German director Andreas Dresen as Best European Director 2008 for CLOUD NINE, produced by EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter Rommel. The film has also a nomination in the category Best European actress 2008 for Ursula Werner. In the same category, Hiam Abbass is nominated for her performance in LEMON TREE, co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina Brokemper). For the same film, Suha Arraf & Eran Riklis are nominated as Best Scriptwriters 2008.
Marton Agh is nominated for production design (EFA Prix d'Excellence 2008) for DELTA by Kornel Mundruzco, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi.
www.europeanfilmacademy.org


Among the nominees for France’s Louis Delluc Prize, one of the local industry’s most prestigious awards, is Jacques Doillon’s LE PREMIER VENU, produced by EAVE 1992 & president Jani Thiltges, EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye. A jury presided over by Cannes Festival president Gilles Jacob will reveal their final pick on December 12 in Paris.

Documentary LEBEN ZWISCHEN DEN ELBDEICHEN of the series ZIVILISIERTE WILDNIS by Anne Mesecke, Dr. Heribert Schöller and Guido Kilbert has been nominated for the Special Development Award by VASEK (Vaasa Region’s Development Company). The documentary has been produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs.
www.hoferichterjacobs.de


AWARDS

BURMA VJ – REPORTING FROM A CLOSED COUNTRY by Anders Østergaard, produced by EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller (Magic Hour Films, DK) was awarded the main award in the main category Dox Awards as well as the Amnesty Award in Copenhagen at cph:dox. The documentary shows footage from the uprising in Burma screens on every news channel and explores who are the reporters behind the cameras. They are not looking for fame nor heroism, yet day after day they risk their life to show the world how life in the sealed off country really is.
www.magichourfilms.dk

The FIPRESCI prize at the Thessaloniki Film Festival went out to EAVE 1991 graduate Panos Karkanevatos’ Well Kept Secrets – Athanasia, produced by Vergi Film Productions (GR) and featured in the Greek Panorama. The film has also received the Third Prize at the Greek State Awards. Among the films which received side awards in Thessaloniki, totaling 100,000 Euro, were TEZA by Haile Gerima, co-produced by EAVE 1992 graduate & French National Coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2000 graduate Marie-Michèle Cattelain, and SNOW by Aida Begic, (Bosnia & Herzegovina), co-produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter.
www.filmfestival.gr

French/Icelandic co-production BACK SOON by Solveig Anspach, produced by EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman (Agat Films / Ex Nihilo, F) has been awarded the Grand Prix GOLDEN GIRALDILLO at the Sevilla International Film Festival.
www.agatfilms.com

Documentary UNIDAD 25 by Alejo Hoijman, produced by Hugo Castel Fau and Luis Angel Ramirez, associate produced by EAVE 2008 graduate Fernanda del Nido (Tic Tac Producciones, E), has scooped the main award at the VIÑA DEL MAR Film Festival (Chile).
www.tictacproducciones.com

At the ceremony for the eight Production Awards and six Development Awards at the end of the first TorinoFilmLab Meeting Event, held from November 23-24, the jury had €600,000 for the Production Awards, to be distributed to projects on the basis of their stage of development and budgets. Paz Fabrega’s Agua fria de mar, co-produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Jean des Forêts (Les Films du Requin, F) and EAVE 2008 graduate Fernanda del Nido (Tic Tac Producciones, E), won €120,000. The six Development Awards – chosen from among the 15 projects developed in the advanced screenwriting course Script&Pitch Workshops/Training Programme 2008 – will allow the winning filmmakers to continue working on their projects during the upcoming year as part of the TorinoFilmLab’s Development Programme. Among the selected projects is THE ARC by Eva Keuris, (producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Herman Slagter, White Bull Film, NL).
www.torinofilmlab.it

TEZA by Haile Gerima, co-produced by EAVE 1992 graduate & French National Coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2000 graduate Marie-Michèle Cattelain (Unlimited, F) has won in Tunis the following awards: Tanit d’Or and Best Screenplay (Haile Gerima), Best Music (Vijay Iyer and Jorga Mesfin), Best Cinematography (Mario Masini) Best Male Supporting role (Abeye Tedla).
www.unlimited-films.net

TULPAN by Sergey Dvortsevoi, co-produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer, has been awarded Best Feature at the Times BFI London Film Festival. The Kazakh writer-director's first movie also won best feature film at the second annual Asia-Pacific Screen Awards on Australia's Gold Coast. The film also claimed the top prize at the 21st Tokyo International Film Festival.

At the Asia-Pacific Screen Awards, talent awards went to Israel's Hiam Abbass for her performance in LEMON TREE (co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm). LEMON TREE writers Suha Arraf and Eran Riklis won Best Screenplay.
www.heimatfilm.de

LEFT BANK by Pieter Van Hees won two awards last weekend at the Gotham Screen Film Festival in New York. Eline Kuppens, who made her debut on the big screen with LEFT BANK, won the award for Best Actress. Nicolas Karakatsanis won the Best Photography award. The film opened the Gotham Screen Film Festival shortly after its US-premiere in Austin, Texas. This award and the increasing numbers of festival selections help to support the growing buzz on LEFT BANK which is distributed in the USA. Line producer was EAVE 2007 graduate Peter de Maegd (Caviar, B).
www.linkeroeverthemovie.com

TEARS OF APRIL by Aku Louhimies just got awarded at the 8th edition of Marrakech International Film Festival.The Finish-German-Greek co-production (producer: EAVE 2002 graduate & Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy) got the award for Best Actor for Eero Aho. The film recently premiered internationally at Nordische Filmtage Lübeck, Germany. Associate producer is EAVE 2008 graduate Annika Sucksdorff.
www.festivalmarrakech.info

THE CLASS by Ilmar Raag, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate and Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos (Amrion, EE) has scooped three top awards at the Paris 4 Ecrans Festival: Grand Prix des 4 écrans, Ecran d’Argent Ciné-Télé and the Youth Jury Prize.
www.amrion.ee / festival-4ecrans.eu

Documentary HOCHBURG DER SÜNDEN by Thomas Lauterbach has been awarded the „Goldene Taube“, the main award of the German competition des 51st International Leipzig Festival for documentaries and animation, DOK Leipzig. The film that was supported by German regional fund MFG Baden-Württemberg was produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik (Indifilm, D).
www.indifilm.de

THE STRANGER IN ME by Emily Atef, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards, scooped two of the main awards at the 32nd Sao Paulo International Film Festival: Best Film and Best Actress for Susanne Wolff.
www.nikofilm.de

KINO LIKA produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic (Kinorama, HR) has just won the grand prix Matad’or at Noordelijk Film Festival, in Leeuwarden in The Netherlands and the student’s prize at the same festival. It has also won the young jury’s award at Montpellier Film Festival in France last month.
www.kinorama.hr

Irish short film THE BASKET CASE, written and directed by Owen O’Neill and produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Katie Holly of Blinder Films, won the prestigious ‘Best Short Fiction’ Award at the Boston Irish Film Festival earlier this month. Described by the adjudicators as ‘a beautiful and memorable film’ this is the first major award for the film since it premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh in July 2007.
www.blinderfilms.com

During Lithuanian cinema awards “Silver Crane”, film THE COLLECTRESS by Kristina Buožyte, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene (Tremora, LT), was acclaimed as the best film of the year.
www.tremora.com

VEM (I KNOW) by Jan Cvitkovič, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar (Staragara, SI) was awarded the Vesna, the Slovenian Oscar, for Best Short Slovenian Film 2007 at the  Slovenian film festival in Portorož. He also received another Vesna for Best Makeup for TV film SONJA.
www.fsf.si


EAVE Producers Workshop 3, 2008 in Warsaw (PL)

EAVE is proud to announce that Warsaw will be the location of the 3rd EAVE Producers workshop in 2008 held in partnership with the Polish Film Institute and the Association of Polish Filmmakers from November 17-24 at the hotel Le Meridien Bristol. This workshop will be the culmination of a year’s work during which 51 participants from 27 European countries have been developing their production skills and projects (33 projects in total). Following the workshops 1 & 2 in Luxembourg (L) and Drogheda (IRL), this workshop in Warsaw focuses on the direct contact with the international marketplace through one-to-one encounters with key decision makers.

Some 50 high-profile European professionals from the industry will join the workshop as decision makers: Philippe Avril/Unlimited (F), Sébastien Beffa/Films Distribution (F), Gunnar Carlsson/Sveriges Television (SE), Alberto Chollet/SRG SSR Idée Suisse (CH), Pepe Coira/ Bren Entertainment (E), Laszlo Demeter/Duna Television (HU), Ellis Driessen/Nederlands Film Festival/Fortissimo Films (NL), Hermann Florin/Florin Film- und Fernsehproduktion (D), Karlo Funk/Estonian Film Foundation (EE), Ilze Gailite-Homberga/Latvian Film Centre (LV), Juan Gordon/Morena Films (E), Paul Gratton/ Canadian Television Fund (CAN), Peter Gustafsson/Swedish Film Institute (SE), Robin Gutch/Warp Films (UK), Michael Haslund-Christensen/Danish Film Institute (DK), Sonja Heinen/Berlinale Co-production Market/World Cinema Fund (D), Sławomir Jóźwik/TVP Film Agency (PL), Maciej Karpinski/Polish Film Institute (PL), Adam Kemp/BBC (UK), Petri Kemppinen/Finnish Film Foundation (FI), Jørgen Kristiansen/Scanbox (DK), Karolina Lidin/Nordisk Film & TV Fond (NO), Luca Macciocca/RAI Sat (IT), Brigitta Manthey/Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg (D), Marianne Moritzen/Danish Film Institute (DK), Peter Nadermann/Network Movie Film (D), Amy Nelson/TVF International (UK), Deirbhile Ní Churraighín/TG4 (IRL), Sirel Peensaar Mieell/Filmpool Nord (SE), Miira Paasilinna/NonStop Sales (SE), Keith Potter/Film Agency for Wales (UK), Ewa Puszczynska/Opus Film (PL), Piotr Reisch/SPI International (PL), Ted Riley/Alliance Atlantis (IRL), Thorsten  Ritter/Bavaria Film International (D), Manfred Schmidt/ MDM (D), Lucas  Schmidt/ZDF-Kleines Fernsehspiel (D), Dirk Schürhoff/Beta Cinema (D), Riina Sildos/Baltic Event (EE), Mira Staleva/Sofia Meetings (BG), Georg Steinert/ARTE (F), Irena Strzalkowska/TOR Film Production  (PL), Jani Thiltges/ Samsa Film (L)/Liaison Cinématographique (F) , Mélaine Thomann-Fox/Région Ile-de-France (F), Lee Thomas/Screen West Midlands (UK), Marit van den Elshout/CineMart (NL), Robert Walak/Momentum Pictures (UK), Monika Weibel/Frenetic Films (CH), Sasha Wieser/EastWest Distribution (AT), Peter Zawrel/Film Fund Vienna (AT).

We will also present some of EAVE’s partners from the leading co-production markets in a panel: Special guests Gabriele Brunnenmeyer (Connecting Cottbus), Nadia Dresti (Open Doors), Ellis Driessen (Holland Film Meeting), Marit van den Elshout (CineMart), Sonja Heinen (Berlinale Co-Production Market), Amra Baksic-Camo (CineLink), Miroslav Mogorovic (B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings), Riina Sildos (Baltic Event) and Mira Staleva (Sofia Meetings) will talk about the opportunities these events offer.

In addition, the schedule offers plenary sessions, group work and individual meetings with EAVE experts and several guest experts: Thorsten Ritter (D) - World Sales, Laurence Kaye (UK) – Music Rights, Sibylle Kurz (D) – Pitching, Linda Beath (I) – Strategic Planning for Production Companies, Alan Fountain (UK) – Career Development, and Nikolaj Nikitin (D) - Festivals & Strategies and. EAVE legal expert Roberto Olla will hold a plenary session on the legal aspects of distribution.

Focus on local production: The schedule also includes a panel on Producing in Poland, composed of Jacek Bromski/president of the Polish Filmmakers Association, Agnieszka Odorowicz/director of the Polish Film Institute, Maciej Karpiński/Head of International Relations in Polish Filmmakers Association, Sławomir Jóźwik/Head of Film Agency in Polish Television, Teresa Dworzecka/STI Film Studio and EAVE graduate Jarosław Szoda/Fabryka.

Teresa Dworzecka is one of the co-producers of the film that will be screened during the workshop, Polish-German co-production 33 SCENES FROM LIFE, by Malgoska Szumowska, that has been awarded, amongst other awards, the Special Jury Prize in Locarno this year.

EAVE graduate Jarosław Szoda will give insight into the success story of the project he brought to EAVE in 2004, THE MIRACLE SELLER, which is currently shooting.

A special “Mini-Eave” with sessions, tailored to the requirements of the local professionals, will be organised. EAVE group-leaders Danny Krausz and Patrick Sobelman will talk about how to approach Co-production in Europe and EAVE expert Sibylle Kurz will explore important aspects of Pitching and Communication. Additionally, all the plenary sessions of the workshop are open to local professionals.

EAVE is grateful for sponsorship and support for workshop 3 2008 from: Polish Film Institute, Association of Polish Filmmakers, Media Desk Poland.

EAVE festival NEWS - October 2008

***Strong presence of EAVE producers & films in Rome, Pusan, Warsaw***

HAMBURG FILM FESTIVAL (September 25 – October 2)
OPENING FILM
- NORTH FACE, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz
AGENDA 08
- BACK SOON, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
- KINO LIKA, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic
- THE MARKET, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
EUROVISUELL
- PLAYING SOLO, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nina Koljonen
KURZ & GUT
- ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE ALPS, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Jožko Rutar
CLOSING FILM:
- ELDORADO, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
www.filmfest-hamburg.de

Reykjavik International Film Festival (September 25 – October 5)
OPEN SEA PROGRAMME
- PANDORA’S BOX, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
VISIONS
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
- SNOW, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
- BLIND LOVES, sales: EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger
http://eng.riff.is/

PUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (October 2 – 10)
WORLD CINEMA
- DAWN OF THE WORLD, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Oliver Damian
- THE STRANGER IN ME, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards
- DELTA, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
- PANDORA’S BOX, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
- THE COLLECTRESS, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene
NEW CURRENTS
- LAND OF SCARECROWS, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Antonin Dedet
FLASH FORWARD
- SALT OF THIS SEA, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin
OPEN CINEMA
- NORTH FACE, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz
WIDE ANGLE
- VEM aka I KNOW, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar
ROMANIAN NEW WAVE
- MARILENA FROM P7, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon
- THE TUBE WITH A HAT, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon
- CROSSING DATES, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Tudor Giurgiu
- MEGATRON, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon
www.piff.org

DINARD BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL (October 2 – 5)
GOLDEN HITCHOCK COMPETITION
- THE MARKET, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
FESTIVAL DES DINARDAIS
- THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Andrea Calderwood
www.festivaldufilm-dinard.com

FLANDERS International Film Festival Ghent (October 7 – 18)
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
- THE MARKET, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
- DELTA, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
- CLOUD 9, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
- SNOW, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
- NACHT VOR AUGEN, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski
WORLD CINEMA
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-p.: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin
- NADINE, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Ellen de Waele
www.filmfestival.be

MEDIMED PITCHING FORUM (October 9 – 11)
Following the success of its eight editions, MEDIMED will present again an exclusive selection of documentary projects, and ready-made programmes, aiming to enhance the professional and creative exchange between the 12 MEDA countries and the 27 EU countries, encouraging the development, promotion and distribution of European and Mediterranean audio-visual works.
Among the selected projects are 2 produced by EAVE producers:
- KOSMOS 68’ by Peeter Brambat, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Margus Ounapuu (EE)
- ELIOTT NESS VS AL CAPONE, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Nadège Hasson (F)
http://www.medimed.org/index2.html

INTERNATIONAL EURASIA FILM FESTIVAL (October 11 – 19) /
ANTALYA GOLDEN ORANGE FILM FESTIVAL (October 10 – 19)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
- EAVE 2005 project KHAMSA by Karim Dridi
- PANDORA’S BOX, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
NATIONAL COMPETITION
- PANDORA’S BOX, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
- THE MARKET, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
GALA SCREENINGS
- NORTH FACE, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz
BREAKING POINT
- DELTA, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
http://altinportakal.tursak.org.tr

OURENSE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (October 11 – 18)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
- I AM FROM TITOV VELES, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska, co-producers: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi, EAVE 1994 graduate Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
CUBA SI
- LA REINA DEL CONDON, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Karin Koch
CINEMA AND MIGRATIONS
- CAMPO SANTO, producers: EAVE 2007 graduates Isabelle Truc & Serge Guez
FESTIVAL GEMS
- EL OTRO, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute
www.ouff.org

CORONA CORK FILM FESTIVAL (October 12 – 19)
- BETTER THINGS, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Samm Haillay, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, associate producer: EAVE 2002 graduate David Smith
- NADINE, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Ellen de Waele
- BRIDES OF ALLAH, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel
- ONE WHO SET FORTH, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik
THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
- KINGS, co-producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Michael Casey
www.corkfilmfest.org

Hamptons International Film Festival (October 15 - 19)
WORLD CINEMA
- BLACK ICE, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Karle Aho
- DUNYA & DESIE, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit
FILMS OF CONFLICT AND RESOLUTION
- FEUERHERZ, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer
- SNOW, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
SPOTLIGHT
- LEMON TREE, co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company
Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina Brokemper)
www.hamptonsfilmfest.org

TIMES BFI LONDON FILM FESTIVAL (October 15 – 30)
NEW BRITISH CINEMA
- BETTER THINGS, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Samm Haillay, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, associate producer: EAVE 2002 graduate David Smith
CINEMA EUROPA
- KISSES, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher
- BLIND LOVES, sales: EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger (Autlook Filmsales)
- CLOUD 9, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
- DELTA, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
- ELDORADO, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- THE MARKET, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
- WHERE IS WINKY’S HORSE, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
WORLD CINEMA
- SALT OF THIS SEA, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin
- TEZA, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate & French National Coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2000 graduate Marie-Michèle Cattelain
www.bfi.org.uk/lff/

VIENNA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (October 17 – 29)
FEATURE FILMS
- LE PREMIER VENU, producers: EAVE 1992 & president Jani Thiltges, EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
DOCUMENTARIES
- 7915 KM, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Michael Kitzberger
- GANGSTER GIRLS, developed by EAVE 2002 graduate Ursula Wolschlager
http://viennale.at/

MOLODIST INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL KIEV (October 18 – 26)
COMPETITION
- SNOW, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
- NACHT VOR AUGEN, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski
- SALT OF THIS SEA, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin
SERBIAN NEW WAVE
- THE TRAP, co-producer: EAVE 1992 graduate Jörg Rothe
ORIENT EXPRESS
- DELTA, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-p.: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin
FRENCH CINEMA TODAY
- JULIA, co-producer: EAVE 1989 graduate Hubert Toint
www.molodist.com

Tokyo International Film FestivaL (October 18 – 26)
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
- NACHT VOR AUGEN, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski
www.tiff-jp.net/en/

ZAGREB FILM FESTIVAL (October 19 to 25)
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-p.: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin
- Aida Begic’s SNOW, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
www.zagrebfilmfestival.com

WARSAW FILM FESTIVAL
DISCOVERIES
- NADINE by Erik de Bruyn, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Ellen de Waele
CLOSING FILM
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
WARSAW COMPETITION
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-p.: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin
- FEUERHERZ, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer
GALA SCREENINGS
- BLACK ICE, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Karle Aho
MASTER’S TOUCH
- LEMON TREE, co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina Brokemper)
- CLOUD 9, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
- RESTLESS, co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
DEBUTE COMPETITION
- SNOW, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
SHORTS COMPETITION
- VEM aka I KNOW by Jan Cvitkovič, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar
www.wff.pl/

INTERNATIONAL ROME FILM FESTIVAL (October 22-31)
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
- THE PAST IS A FOREIGN LAND, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Tilde Corsi 
- SCHATTENWELT, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Michael Jungfleisch
PANORAMA
- CAGES, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
L’ALTRO CINEMA - EXTRA
- JCVD, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and EAVE president Jani Thiltges
- SUMMER IN WINTER, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Franco Bocca Gelsi
FABBRICA DEI PROGETTI
- DEATH OF A PRESIDENT, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney, executive producer: EAVE 1997 graduate Peter Carlton
- THE BIRD CAN’T FLY, producers: EAVE 2000 graduates Tom Maguire and Patrick Fitzsymons
ALICE NELLA CITTA
- EAVE 2001 project THE SICILIAN REBEL, producers: EAVE 2001 graduate Simonetta Amenta, EAVE 1995 graduate Tilde Corsi

NEW CINEMA NETWORK (NCN) - FABBRICA DEI PROGETTI
For the third year in a row, the Rome Film Festival and its sidebar programme ‘Fabbrica dei progetti - New Cinema Network (NCN) will offer 14 promising European filmmakers (including four from the Nordic region) a chance to pitch their second feature films to European film experts.
Jury: EAVE 1999 graduate Simon de Santiago
Projects selected for 2008:
- ILLEGAL by Olivier Masset-Depasse, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Belgium)
- OPENING FIRES by by David Oelhoffen, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Olivier Charvet (France)
- COSTA RICA by Gabriel Range, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
- TRIXY by EAVE 2008 participant Tudor Giurgiu (Romania)
NCN INERNATIONAL
- QUELEH by Abdi Ismael Jama, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille

TRAINING TO SUCCEED
MEDIA Desk Italia in collaboration with Antenna MEDIA Torino in collaboration with The Business Street were organising  an Info Day on the possibilities offered by MEDIA in the Training sector on October 25: training for producers on project development and company management; training on new trends in the animated film industry; training on digital technology applied to distribution and exhibition. The series of brief presentations was followed by the opportunity for professionals to meet individually with representatives of each activity, among them EAVE. The MEDIA Programme was represented by members of the Brussels EACEA Executive Agency: Arnaud Pasquali, Soon-Mi Peten about and Gabor Greiner.
www.romacinemafest.it

CARTHAGE FILM FESTIVAL - 22nd session:  October 25 – November 1, 2008
Images, sounds, color and black and white, passionate and sometimes heated discussions about a film, stars and budding talents, the Arab world and Africa meeting to appreciate each other and exchange.  The Carthage Film Festival offers all of this to our guests and the Tunisian public.  The 2008 session promises to be a reflection of the times.  We will be able to experience stories through films from around the world.  It will give us a chance to reflect on the swift changes brought on by the rush of new technology in the audiovisual field.  And of course, we will be able to celebrate cinema, brotherhood and gathering together.
Welcome artists and cinema lovers.
www.jccarthage.org

OTHER FESTIVALS

MOUTH TO MOUTH, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Anne Beresford with Judy Tossell of Egoli Tossell (D), was screened at the inaugural Branchage Festival in Jersey last month.  The film was directed by Alison Murray and stars Ellen Page.
THE FORGOTTEN CIRCUS, a short film also produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Anne Beresford, directed by Shelly Love, was shown at the Branchage Festival in the Spiegeltent on Sunday 28th September. 
www.branchagefestival.com 

DIRINGAS, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene (Tremora, LT) has been shown at the Eurofest in Montréal last month.
www.eurofest.ca

FALLING FROM EARTH by Chadi Zeneddine (co-production France-Lebanon) has been selected at the International Festival of Carthage and at the 30th International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema (Cinemed) of Montpellier, at the Arab Film festival (LA, USA), at the Scripps College Humanities Institute Series on "Global Media" USA (Claremont, CA), at the Al-Kasaba International Film Festival (Ramallah) and the Lens Politica Film Festival (Helsinki). It will be released in Libanon on november the 29th and in France in 2009. The film is sold by Wide Management.
Short FLUX MARSEILLE by Camille and Manolo has been selected at the Sao Paolo International Film Festival, the 'Festival Nouveau Cinema' of Montreal, and also for the experimental section at the 30th International Festival of Mediterranean Cinema (Cinemed) of Montpellier and at the 'Tout Court Festival' of Aix-en-Provence.
Short film Flux Terschelling by Camille and Manolo has been selected at the Lausanne Underground Film Festival.
All three films have been produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Antonin Dedet (Neon, F).
www.neon.fr

Documentary HIDDEN HEART by Cristina Karrer and EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer, produced by EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer (Dschoint Ventschr, CH) and EAVE 1989 graduate Carl-Ludwig Rettinger (Lichtblick, D), has been selected for the Sevilla European Film Festival this month.
www.hidden-heart.com

EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer (Dschoint Ventschr, CH) also co-produced the documentary SHADOW OF THE HOLY BOOK which is screening in various festivals this month: Etnia Film Festival, Turku, Finland; Medimed, Sitges, Spain; Bergen International Film Festival, Bergen, Norway; Cinema Verite: Iran International Documentary Film Festival, Tehran, Iran; One World Festival, Bourgas, Bulgaria; Festival of Liberties, Brussels, Belgium; Molodist" Kyiv International Film Festival, Kiev, Ukraine; Batumi International Film Festival, Batumi, Georgia; Human Rights Film Festival "Ad Hoc: Inconvenient Films", Vilnius, Lithuania; One World Festival, Ottawa, Canada;  MiradasDoc, Guia de Isora, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain and Taiwan International Film Festival.
www.shadowoftheholybook.com

Documentary LA REINA DEL CONDON, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Karin Koch (Dschoint Ventschr, CH), which won the Main Award at the DOCUPOLIS International Festival in Madrid and was playing at the Boston Latino IFF this month.
www.dschointventschr.ch

THE COLLECTRESS by Kristina Buožyte, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene (Tremora, LT), has been selected for the Sao Paolo IFF, Mostra de Valencia and at the Filmtage Lübeck. The film had been previously selected for the Karlovy Vary IFF, Aye Aye, Kinoshock (where it took the award for Best Director and a special award), Arsenals and Cinesfest Miskolc.
www.tremora.com

MAJKEN, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Helene Lindholm, has been selected this month for competition at the Uppsala International Short Film Festival.
www.atmo.se

DOS LAGRIMAS (TWO TEARS), a documentary about the flamenco star Diego El Cigala, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate José Barrio (FrameStorming, E), has been selected finalist in the Official Section in Competition in the International Film Festival of Cancun.
www.cancunfilmfest.com.mx

Short film ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE ALPS directed by Janez Burger, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Jožko Rutar for production house STARAGARA (SI) has been selected at the Braunschweig film festival in Germany this month.
www.filmfest-braunschweig.de

Short film VEM aka I KNOW by Jan Cvitkovič, also produced by EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar (Staragara, SI) has been selected for Chicago and Mar del Plata.
www.nasoncnistranialp.com / www.staragara.com

ABSURDISTAN, directed and produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer, has been selected at the following festivals in October: Sitges/Barcelona, Chicago and Rio de Janeiro.
www.cinemasitges.com/uk / www.chicagofilmfestival.org / www.festivaldorio.com.br

Documentary LES ORIGINES DU LANGAGE by Bernard Favre, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Serge Guez (Crescendo films, F), has been selected for the Pariscience festival. 
http://www.crescendofilms.fr

EAVE 2005 project LA PALOMA, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Sigrid Faltin (White Pepper, D) in co-production with French Seppia has been selected for the following festivals this month: Filmfest Eberswalde (Germany), International Film Festival of Fine Arts, Szolnok (Hungary) and Festival on Human Rights – VIVISECTfest, Novi Sad (Serbia).
www.whitepepper.de

CORRIDOR #8, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel, has been selected for the section OPEN SEAS at the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival in the Czech Republic.
www.dokument-festival.cz

EAVE 2003 project BALKAN TRAFFIC by Markus Stein and Milan Pusić, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs has been selected for the Film Festival in Biberach (Germany).
At the Leipzig Film Festival, project HACKER – ZWISCHEN UPTOPIE UND REALISMUS (producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs) will receive one of the awards of the public call „Mein Leben in Sicherheit“. The project is supported by German regional fund MDM. The shooting is scheduled for 2009.
Nature documentary VOM TODESSTREIFEN ZUR LEBENSADER of the series WILDNIS AUS MENSCHENHAND by Dr. Heribert Schöller will be shown at the Festival International du Film Ornithologique in Menigoute (France). The film was also produced by EAVE graduate Olaf Jacobs.
Another of Olaf’s productions, documentary FORGETTING DAD by Rick Minnich und Matt Sweetwood, will be shown at the Leipzig Screenings this month.
www.hoferichterjacobs.de

Swedish director Joakim Demmer’s Tarifa Traffic: Death in the Straits of Gibraltar (Dschoint Ventschr, EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer, Switzerland) will be shown in the Best of TV section of the Leipzig festival this month.
www.dschointventschr.ch

pereSTROIKA - reCONSTRUCTION of a flat by Christiane Buechner, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Tobias Buechner (Buechner.Filmproduktion, D) in co-production with WDR and MDR, has been selected for German competition a the International Documentary Festival in Leipzig.The film has ben supported by NRW, BKM, Gerd Ruge Project stipendia.
BLIND LOVES, sales: EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger (Autlook Filmsales), has been selected for competition in Leipzig.
www.dok-leipzig.de

Saint-Marcel - Tout et rien voir, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Nadège Hasson and EAVE 2004 graduate Geneviève De Bauw was shown this month in Brussels at the festival « Filmer à Tout Prix”.
www.thankyouandgoodnight.be

EAVE NEWSLETTER October 2008

***NOMINATIONS: 10 films by EAVE producers in the race for the Oscars***
***AWARDS: Multiple Awards for TULPAN***
***AWARDS: top awards in Pusan, Ghent, Antalya, San Sebastian***
***Upcoming Deadlines: EAVE Film Marketing Workshop, Berlinale Co-Production Market, EAVE Latin America Workshop***
*** EAVE WORKSHOPS: Haifa, Ramallah, Ourense and Warsaw***
*** appointments: Catherine Buresi (EFM) and Line Sandsmark (EDN) ***

IN DEVELOPMENT/PRE-PRODUCTION

EURIMAGES SUPPORT
In its latest round of development support, EURIMAGES has awarded funding to 4 projects produced by EAVE producers:
- QUARTIER LOINTAIN by Sam Eduard Gabarski, producer: Entre Chien et Loup, B (EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye), co-producer: Samsa Film, L (EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges)
- TILT by Viktor Chouchkov Jr., co-producer: EAVE 2008 participant Guido Schwab (Ostlicht, D)
- LE QUATTRO VOLTE by Michelangelo Frammartino, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli (Ventura Film, CH)
- ZELTA ZIRGS by Valentas Askinis, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges (Paul Thiltges Distributions sarl, L)
www.coe.int/eurimages

MEDIA SUPPORT
At their latest MEDIA Development funding session, the following five EAVE producers and their projects or companies were granted development funding:
- Irish company Winter’s End (EAVE 2006 graduate Damien Donnelly) for IN GOD’S GARDEN
- German company Kinoherz (EAVE 2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach) for EAVE 2007 project COME IN
- French company Crescendo Films (EAVE 2007 graduate Serge Guez) for SEUTHES L’IMMORTEL, LES SECRETS DU ROI THORACE
- Swedish company WG film (EAVE 2005 graduate Margarete Jangard) for BANANAS
- German company MA.JA.DE (EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert) for RED OIL
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/index_en.htm

At this autumn’s Romanian Film Centre (CNC) financing session, funding grants were awarded to: Dan Chisu’s THE BEAR, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Tudor Giurgiu (Libra Films): €284,000. Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest) and Cristi Puiu (The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, The Dough and the Money) will also be supported in their future projects by the CNC. Puiu’s AURORA, developed in this year’s Cannes Atelier (co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Dan Wechsler) will receive €453,000, while Porumboiu’s INTERMEDIAR now has an extra €425,000 for a total budget of €850,000. Also supported: Adrian Sitaru’s Of Love, with Best Intentions; (producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Adriana Solomon, Hifilm).

German regional film fund MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg has awarded 3 projects produced by EAVE graduates at their latest funding session: FREED PIGS by Tomasz Thomson, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (noirfilm, D) and ANATOLIAN LOVE LETTERS Yilmaz Arslan, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Jens Weber. WHORE’S GLORY by Michael Glawogger, produced by EAVE 1994 graduate & Austrian national coordinator Erich Lackner (Lotus Film, AT) in cp-production with Quinte Film (D).
www.mfg.de/film

Teresa Fabik was awarded SEK6.2m by the Swedish Film Institute for her youth film PRINSESSA, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Sandra Harms (Breidablick Film Production). Maria Blom's FISHY, produced by Memfis Film (EAVE 1999 graduate Anna Anthony), was awarded SEK1.5m. and the film is currently playing on Swedish screens. MISS KICKI - developed as part of the Rookie Film initiative - is directed by Håkon Liu. The Migma Film (EAVE 1995 graduate Anita Oxburgh) production received SEK 2.7m. Sielling's episodic film OVER GADEN, UNDER VANDET,  produced by Denmark's Nimbus Film in co-production with Sweden's Hepp Film (EAVE 2002 graduate and Swedish national coordinator Helena Danielsson), was awarded SEK 400,000.
The documentary film BANANAS by Fredrik Gertten, about banana plantation workers who take a multinational to court was awarded SEK2m. The film is produced by WG Film, Westman and Gertten AB (EAVE 2005 graduate Margarete Jangard), with support from Nordisk Film & TV Fond. Andersson's Vi hade I alla fall tur med vädret-igen!, the follow up to the Swedish cult TV from 1980, was awarded SEK8.5 by the Swedish Film Institute. The film now in post-production, is produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Peter Kropenin and Peter Possne. Domestic release is set for this Christmas.
www.sfi.se

EAVE 2006 graduate Antonin Dedet and company Neon Productions have just received the Fonds Sud for the movie The Last Flight of the Flamingo" by Joao Ribeiro (co-production Spain-Portugal-France). Filming in Mozambique is scheduled for March 2009.
Neon are also currently preparing the shooting of PAUVRE MARTIN by Mathilde Cukierman.
www.neon.fr

Paz Fábrega has received a grant and a Dutch co-producer through the Hubert Bals Fund Plus programme for her feature project Agua Fria de Mar (Cold Sea). The film, set in Costa Rica, will be produced by Temporal Films in co-production with Les Films du Requin (EAVE 2007 graduate Jean des Forêts, France), Tic Tac Producciones (EAVE 2008 participant Fernanda del Nido, Spain), Pimenta Films (Mexico) and Isabella Films (The Netherlands). The Hubert Bals Plus Programme aims to promote international involvement of Dutch producers with films already supported by Rotterdam’s Hubert Bals Fund.
www.lesfilmsdurequin.com

DOUBLE TAKE by Johan Grimonprez, an 80 min. docu-fiction about our politics of fear, since Hitchcock and the Cold War until the current war on terror, is currently in development. The film will be a Belgian, German, Dutch, French co-production by Zapomatik (EAVE 2006 graduate Emmy Oost) with NiKo Film (Hanneke van der Tas, EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards), Volya Films (EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin) and Les Films du Présent (EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nézan). They have already obtained production funding from the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (B), Nordmedia (D), The Rotterdam Film Fund (NL) and ZDF/Arte. Delivery is scheduled for winter 2009.
www. zapomatik.com

Four films produced by Croatian production company Nukleus (EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisha Juricic), including EAVE 2007 project CASH & MARRY, have been chosen for support by the Croatian Film Center.
www.havc.hr

IN PRODUCTION

Dublin based Grand Pictures will commence principal photography on November 10 on a new comedy feature WIDE OPEN SPACES penned by ‘Arthur Matthews. WIDE OPEN SPACES will be directed by Tom Hall. The comedy is about male friendship centering on two thirty-something slackers while they lie low in a remote area of Ireland. The shoot is for five weeks in various locations in Kildare. EAVE 1995 graduate Paul Donovan of Grand Pictures will co-produce with Clare Kerr from Scotland’s Mead Kerr Ltd. Financed by the Irish Film Board, Scottish Screen, RTÉ, BBC Scotland and E1. International sales are being handled by E1. Post production will take place in Arc in Scotland.
Grand Pictures are also currently shooting a feature film THE RACE in Monaghan and Belfast. Principal photography commenced on 29th September. THE RACE is a coming of age story of a young girl’s attempts to achieve her dreams of becoming a racing car driver. Written by Rowan O'Neill and the debut feature of award-winning short film director, Andre F. Nebe. Michael Garland (Grand Pictures, IRL) and Martin Hageman (zero west, D) are producing with EAVE 2007 graduate Ailish McElmeel co-producing and EAVE 1995 graduate Paul Donovan acting as executive producer. THE RACE is financed by the Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Screen, BBC NI and tax incentives from both Ireland and Germany. High Point is handling international sales.
www.grandpictures.ie

EAVE 2004 project THE MIRACLE SELLER, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Jaroslaw Szoda (FABRYKA, PL) is currently shooting. The film is a Polish-Swedish co-production with support from Polish Television (TVP), Performance Marketing Group (private investor) and PISF (Polish Film Institute. Co-producers are Tomas Eskilsson from Film I Vast and Fredrik Zander from Republiken AB.
The film is being produced and directed by EAVE 2004 graduate Jaroslaw Szoda and Boleslaw Pawica, Jaroslaw Szoda is also the D.O.P. Mitko Panov wrote the the script based on the original idea by Grzegorz Loszewski.
www.fabrykafilmow.pl

EAVE 2007 graduate Dan Wechsler and company Bord Cadre Films are starting the production of their next feature film OPERATION CASABLANCA, directed by Laurent Nègre. The film is co-produced by Equinoxe Productions (Canada) and Ex Nihilo (EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman, France). The shooting starts on October 20 up to December 12.
www.bordcadrefilms.com

EAVE 2006 graduate Antonin Dedet and company Neon Productions are shooting since October 7 the short film BAY OF THE FOX by Gregoire Colin.
www.neon.fr

Veiko Ounpuu is currently shooting his second feature, The Temptations of Saint Tony, a co-production between Estonia's Homeless Bob Production, ATMO from Sweden, and Bronson Club from Finland. The film, which received 115,000 Euros in support from Eurimages this summer, is also funded by the EU's MEDIA programme, the Estonian Film Foundation, the Swedish Film Institute, and the Finnish Film Foundation. The shooting started on October 23 and lasts until November 30 in various locations around Estonia. The film is budgeted at 1 million euros and is scheduled for cinema release in September, 2009. Ounpuu's project was awarded the "European Talent Award" at the Cannes film festival. The producers are EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa, EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Aberg, Tero Kaukomaa, and Jesse Fryckman.
www.homelessbob.ee / www.atmo.se

Writer/director Conor McDermottroe’s debut feature Occi vs. the World, based on his acclaimed play “Swansong”, has commenced principal photography in Sligo. The film follows a young man as he searches for his father. The film is a German/ Irish co production between German company Florin Film and Irish companies Zanzibar Films (EAVE 1998 graduate and national coordinator Edwina Forkin) and Borderline Productions (EAVE 2000 graduate Tom Maguire). The Irish Film Board (IFB), Section 481, RTE, Eurimages, Kinowelt and ZDF/Arte are financing the film with assistance from the MEDIA Programme. LA based The Little Film Company is handling international sales.
www.zanzibarfilms.net

Currently shooting for 6 weeks in the UK: £1m drama A BOY CALLED DAD, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate and Welsh national coordinator Mark John (Vision Thing, UK) in co-production with EAVE 2005 graduate Mike Knowles (Made Up North, UK).
www.vision-thing.com

After the gangster hold-ups of THE RIGHT OF THE WEAKEST (competition Cannes 2006) and the TV drama LES PRÉDATEURS, Belgian director Lucas Belvaux explores the famous 1978 kidnapping of Baron Empain in his new film RAPT!. Produced by French company Agat Films (EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman) and Belgium’s Entre Chien et Loup (EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum), the feature started shooting on October 6 in Belgium and is set to star Yvan Attal (ANTHONY ZIMMER, MUNICH, MY WIFE IS AN ACTRESS). RAPT! will be made on a budget of €6m.
www.entrechienetloup.be


IN POSTPRODUCTION

Grand Pictures are currently completing postproduction on a TV movie for TV3 (the Irish commercial broadcaster). SCHOOL RUN is written by Anna McPartlin and directed by Neasa Hardiman.  EAVE 1995 graduate Paul Donovan produced it with EAVE 2007 graduate Ailish McElmeel acting as co-producer and Michael Garland acting as executive producer. It will be broadcast over the Christmas period. SCHOOL RUN was financed by TV3, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland (BCI) and Tax Incentives from the Irish Government.
www. grandpictures.ie

EAVE 2006 graduate Antonin Dedet and company Neon Productions have been line producing in the South of France A PROPHET by Jacques Audiard, produced by Why Not Productions as well as the French part of THE REBOUND by Bart Freundlich with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Justin Bartha.
Furthermore, they have finished the shooting of their own production ISTANBUL TRANSACTION by Camille and Manolo, in Istanbul.
www.neon.fr

EAVE 2006 project LOST PERSONS AREA, directed by Caroline Strubbe and produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers (Minds Meet, B) is now in postproduction. LOST PERSONS AREA is co-produced by Patrick Quinet (Artémis, BE).
www.mindsmeet.be

EAVE 2007 project FIRST OF ALL FELICIA by Razvan Radulescu & Melissa De Raaf, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian national coordinator Ada Solomon (Hi Film, RO) has just completed shooting in Bucharest. The project had been part of the 2008 edition of the prestigious Atelier de la Cinéfondation and is supported by the Romanian CNC. FIRST OF ALL FELICIA is co-produced by ARTE France.
www.hifilm.ro

LES BARONS by Nabil Ben Yadir, produced by Liaison Cinématographique (F) and Entre Chien et Loup (B), producers : EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye and EAVE 1992 graduate and President Jani Thiltges, has completed shooting.
www.liaisoncinema.fr

CURRENTLY PLAYING

Short film VEM aka I KNOW by Jan Cvitkovič, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar (Staragara, SI) has had its Slovenian premiere this month.
www.staragara.com

LEMON TREE co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina Brokemper) is playing in German cinemas since October 2.
www.heimatfilm.de

Feature documentary TRYING FREEDOM by Thor Bekkavik, produced by EAVE graduate Carsten Aanonsen (Indie Film, NO) was released in cinemas in Norway on October 3.
www.indiefilm.no

NACHT VOR AUGEN, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (noirfilm, D) has been released on Germany on October 9.
www.noirfilm.de

Documentary MEMOIRES D’ENVOL by Eve Dea, produced by EAVE 2002 graduate  Aurélien Bodinaux (Neon Rouge, B) premiered on October 14 at the Centre Culturel Jacques Franck in Brussels. The film was produced in co-production with WIP, la Commission de Sélection du film de la Communauté française de Belgique, RTBF and CBA.
The DVD of MEMOIRE D’ENVOL is now available (EN, NL, and FR).
www.neonrouge.com

ZWEIER OHNE by Jobst Christian Oetzmann, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Joachim Ortmanns (Lichtblick, D), is playing in German cinemas since October 16.
www.lichtblick-film.de

THE STRANGER IN ME (producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards) is playing in German cinemas since October 16.
www.nikofilm.de

BRIDE FLIGHT by Dutch director Ben Sombogaart, produced by IDTV Film (NL), EAVE 1992 graduate and President Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L) and Dutch broadcaster NCRV, has been released in Holland this month on October 16.
www.samsa-film.com

LE BUREAU DES JOURS PERDUS by Jean-François Fontanel, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Alexandre Charlet (Les Films du Cygne, F), was screened in Paris at the City Hall on October 16.
www.swanpublicite.com/cygne.htm

Tunisian-born filmmaker's Karim Dridi's KHAMSA (EAVE 2006 project) is playing in France since October 8 and in Belgium since October 22.
www.khamsa-lefilm.com

EL OTRO by Ariel Rotter, produced by EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute is playing in France since October 8.
www.celluloid-dreams.com

Ben Sombogaart’s BRIDE FLIGHT produced by IDTV Film (NL), EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L) and Dutch broadcaster NCRV, has been released in Belgium on October 15.
www.samsa-film.com

FREE JIMMY (associate producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Hugh Welchman) has been released in the UK on October 17.
www.breakthrufilms.co.uk

LE PREMIER VENU by Jacques Doillon, produced by EAVE 1992 & president Jani Thiltges,
EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien
Delloye, has been released in Belgium on October 22.
www.artemisproductions.com

Documentary HIDDEN HEART by Cristina Karrer and EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer is playing in German and South African cinemas since October 23. The film has been produced by EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer (Dschoint Ventschr, CH) and EAVE 1989 graduate Carl-Ludwig Rettinger (Lichtblick, D).
www.hidden-heart.com

NORTH FACE by director Philipp Stölzl, produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz (DOR film, AT) has been released in cinemas in Germany on October 23 and in Austria on October 24.
www.nordwand-film.de


ON TV

Andreas Dresen’s SUMMER IN BERLIN, produced by EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel, was broadcast on German public channel ARD on October 4  at 20h15.
www.sommervormbalkon.de

Documentary CAMPO SANTO, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Isabelle Truc, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Serge Guez, was broadcast on ARTE on October 5.
www.arte-tv.com

Documentary AFFAIRES DE GRANDES FAMILLES, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Sylvie Brenet, was shown on ARTE on October 5 at 22h35.
www.arte-tv.com

A short version (30 minutes) of EAVE 2007 documentary project MIND THE GAP will be broadcast on BBC this month. MIND THE GAP is produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Monica Braid (Braidmade Films, UK).
www.braidmadefilms.co.uk

NOMINATIONS

OSCARS
A record 67 countries, including first-time entrant Jordan have submitted films for consideration in the foreign language film category for the 81st Academy Awards. Among them, nine films produced by EAVE graduates:

PALESTINE: Salt of This Sea by Annemarie Jacir, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin
NETHERLANDS: DUNYA AND DESIE by Dana Nechushtan, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit
BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVIAN: SNOW by Aida Begic, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
MACEDONIA: I AM FROM TITOV VELES by Teona Strugar Mitevska, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska, co-producers: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi, EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
BELGIUM : ELDORADO by Bouli Lanners, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
LUXEMBOURG: ARABIAN NIGHTS by Paul Kieffer, producer: EAVE president and 1992 graduate Jani Thiltges’ company Samsa Film (producer: Claude Waringo) 
SLOVAKIA: BLIND LOVES by Juraj Lehotsky, sales: EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger
ESTONIA: I WAS HERE by Rene Vilbre, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate & Estonian national coordinator Riina Sildos
KAZAKHSTAN: TULPAN by Sergey Dvortsevoi, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer

In addition, short film NEW BOY is in the running for Best Short Live Action Film. NEW BOY was produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Tamara Anghie.

Nominations will be announced on January 22, 2009 and the Oscar will be presented on February 22, 2009, at the Kodak Theatre at Hollywood & Highland Centre.
www.oscars.com

EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS
Nominated in the category EUROPEAN DISCOVERY:
- TULPAN by Sergey Dvortsevoi, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
- SNOW by Aida Begic, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
Nominated for the PEOPLE CHOICE AWARD
- BEN X by Nic Balthazar, co-produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
The winners will be announced during the award ceremony in Copenhagen on December 6.
www.europeanfilmacademy.org


Among the nominees for the 15th “Prix du Jeune Producteur français de télévision » (French TV producer) by PROCIREP is EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nézan and company LES FILMS DU PRESENT. The winner will be announced on December 8 at the award ceremony in Paris.
www.procirep.fr

OUTPOST, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Arabella Page Croft & Kieran Parker of UK’s Black Camel Pictures’ has been nominated for this year’s BAFTA Scotland awards for Best Feature Film. The awards taken place in Glasgow on November 9 and will be hosted by Edith Bowman.
www.outpostthemovie.com

AWARDS

EURASIA INTERNATION FILM FESTIVAL ANTALYA
- International Feature Competition - Best film: EAVE 2006 project KHAMSA by Karim Dridi
- National Feature Competition - Best Film, Best Script, Best Actor, Best Costume: THE MARKET by Ben Hopkins, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
http://altinportakal.tursak.org.tr

MUTLIPLE AWARDS FOR TULPAN:
Sergey Dvortsevoy’s TULPAN (co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer) received the top award at the 5th Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF), the Golden Puffin. The jury presided by Baltasar Kormákur described the film as “a charming, straightforward story told with humor and warmth, a story close to the heart despite coming from a culture very different from that of Iceland.” The jury praised especially the beautiful cinematography and the convincing acting. www.filmfest.is
TULPAN was awarded the Tokyo Sakura Grand Prix of the 21st Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). The crystal trophy was accompanied by a cash prize of $100,000. Dvortsevoy also won the best director prize for the film, his feature directing debut.
www.tiff-jp.net/en/
Sergey Dvortsevoy’s TULPAN also takes Golden Eye for best feature at the Zurich Film Festival.
www.zurichfilmfestival.org

Among the other films that were rewarded at the 5th Reykjavik International Film Festival (RIFF) was SNOW (Bosnia-Herzegovina) by Aida Begic (Church of Iceland Award), producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Karsten Stöter. A Special mention went to BLIND LOVES by Juraj Lehotsky, Slovakia, sales: EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger (Autlook Filmsales).
www.filmfest.is

OTHER AWARDS

PANDORA’S BOX, co-produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi (Silkroad Productions, F) has won the top prize, Golden Shell for Best Film as well as the Silver Shell for Best Actress, at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
www.silkroadproduction.com

THE MARKET – A TALE OF TRADE by Ben Hopkins, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad (Flying Moon, D) has received the Grand Prize of the Flemish Community for Best Film (Filmfestival Ghent). The film had already been awarded Best Actor at the Locarno Film Festival.
www.flyingmoon.com

LAND OF SCARECROWS by Roh Gyenong-tae (co-production France-Korea), co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Antonin Dedet (Neon, F) received the 'New Currents Price' at the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF). The film is sold by Studio 2.0.
www.neon.fr

REAL LIFE by Robert Jan Westdijk, produced by IDTV Film (EAVE 2008 participant Céline Baggen) has been awarded Best Camera and Best Editing at the Netherlands Film Festival in Utrecht. The Critics’ Award went to CALIMUCHO, produced by EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper.
www.filmfestival.nl

Documentary BREAKING THE ICE, directed and produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Kurt Salo (Video Respecto, NO) has just been awarded Best Film on the Maritim Topic at the 2008 St. Petersburg Maritime Film Festival, Russia and Highly Commended Diploma at the 2008 Matsalu International Nature Film Festival.
www.matsalutfilm.ee

The 2nd Chungmuro International Film Festival in Seoul awarded its Grand Prize to Srdan Golubovic's Serbian thriller THE TRAP (co-producer: EAVE 1992 graduate Jörg Rothe).
www.klopka-diefalle.de

EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer’s comedy ABSURDISTAN has received the Award by the city of Athens for Best Director at the 14th International Film Festival in Athens.
www.absurdistan-derfilm.de


UPCOMING DEADLINES


EAVE FILM MARKETING WORKSHOP – apply now!
The EAVE Film Marketing Workshop taking place in Luxembourg from December 4-7, emphasizes a ‘hands-on’ and practical approach using current films and modern marketing techniques. This comprehensive short course is particularly effective for producers wishing to gain a greater understanding of the marketing process both in broad terms and for individual films which in turn results in creating a successful company. It is also valuable for people working in sales, distribution and marketing departments. The course is composed of presentations, demonstration and discussion and one-to-one consultations by leading professionals with each participant. During the one-to-one sessions participants present their projects and receive expert feedback and advice.
Deadline for application: November 1, 2008.
Contact Patricia Senova: patricia@eave.org 

BERLINALE CO-PRODUCTION MARKET: CALL FOR SUBMISSION
The call for project submissions for the sixth Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 8-10, 2009) is now open. Once again, they are asking experienced producers from all over the world to send us their new, partly financed projects, for which they are looking for co-production partners.
The submission form is also available for download at www.berlinale.de
Deadline for project submissions: October 30, 2008.

COMING UP SOON: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: PUENTES / EAVE EUROPE – LATIN AMERICA
For the first time in 2009, EAVE and Buenos Aires Lab will organize a common workshop for Latin American and European producers in Buenos Aires from March 26-30, 2009. PUENTES will enable fiction film producers from Europe and Latin America to work together in a five-day workshop. It will offer high level professional development and working on the development of European and Latin American projects, exploring the audiovisual market and operating conditions in both continents. Target group: experienced & successful producers in their own countries wishing to work on an international scale, to create long term creative & business relationships between Europe & Latin America. The call for applications will be published in November 2008 (application deadline: December 15, 2008).
www.eave.org


EAVE WORKSHOPS

MINI EAVE WORKSHOP AT THE HAIFA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (ISRAEL)
A special EAVE workshop from October 15-17, 2008 was held at the Haifa International Film Festival in association with the Israel Film Fund and the Israel Film and Television Producers Association. EAVE experts Roberto Olla, Linda Beath, Danny Krausz & EAVE Chief Executive Alan Fountain conducted sessions on production companies’ financial, business and development strategies, financing sources for development and packages in Europe, co-production with Europe, legal aspects, packaging & development.
www.haifaff.co.il  

PROFESSIONAL COACHING FOR PRODUCERS IN RAMALLAH (PALESTINE)
In partnership with Shashat and the British Council, EAVE was organising a special Workshop in Ramallah on October 21 & 22, 2008. On the programme were sessions on the role of the Producer/Budgeting, finance and financial planning/Film Finance in Europe as well as an overview about European markets, co-production and networks by EAVE expert Linda Beath and EAVE Chief Executive Alan Fountain.
www.shashat.org

EAVE / OUFF MASTERCLASS IN OURENSE (GALICIA, SPAIN)
For the first time in partnership with the Ourense International Film Festival, EAVE was organizing a special EAVE/OUFF Masterclass taking place on October 16 & 17. 3 of EAVE’s leading tutors offered Masterclasses on some of the most important facets of the producer’s work: EAVE script consultant Clare Downs, EAVE 2003 graduate & consultant Roshanak Behesht Nedjad and EAVE 2003 graduate & producer Sébastien Delloye.
www.ouff.org

COMING UP SOON: EAVE WORKSHOP 3 IN WARSAW
EAVE is pleased to announce that Warsaw will be the location of the 3rd and last EAVE workshop in 2008 from November 17-24 in partnership with the Polish Filmmakers’ Association and the Polish Film Institute. This workshop will be the culmination of a year's work during which 50 participants from 29 countries enhanced their production skills and developed their projects. Following workshops 1 & 2 in Luxembourg (L) and Drogheda (IRL), this workshop focuses on the direct contact with the international marketplace through one-to-one encounters with key decision makers. So far over 45 top industry representatives have confirmed their attendance in Warsaw!
www.eave.org


OCTOBER SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS

CATHERINE BURESI NEW DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE EFM
EAVE graduate and former CEO Catherine Buresi, became the new Deputy Director of the Berlinale’s European Film Market (EFM) on September 1, 2008. Catherine Buresi has been working in the international media and film industry for almost 20 years. From 1991 to 2001, she assisted the City of Strasbourg in developing the region’s audio-visual structure; from 2002 to 2005, she was CEO at EAVE in Brussels. Since 2005 she has worked as an independent expert for different institutions and film festivals. As team leader of the “Euromed Audiovisual” programme from 2006 to 2008, she was responsible for developing the partnership between Europe and MEDA countries. She has also operated as “matchmaker” and programme consultant for the Berlinale Co-Production Market, the Producers Network at the Marché du Film in Cannes and for the Dubai Film Connection of the Dubai Film Festival.
www.efm-berlinale.de

LINE SANDSMARK NEW DIRECTOR OF EDN
The Executive Committee of EDN (European Documentary Network) has appointed EAVE 2003 graduate Line Sandsmark as the new director. Line Sandsmark will start her new position as EDN Director on November 1. She brings 15 years of industry experience with her and comes from a position as producer of both documentary and fiction film. In addition to producing Sandsmark has headed The West Norwegian Film Centre and was responsible for boosting this regional funding body and the surrounding production environment into a vibrant film milieu. She entered the film sector working with acquisitions and programming for distribution, exhibition and festivals.
www.edn.dk

ONEMEDIA UNCONFERENCE IN LONDON
EAVE graduate Mel Norman is coordinating the Onemedia unconference supported by NESTA, PACT and Skillset. The event takes place on November 13 and 14. Onemedia is a pioneering unconference where you set the agenda to find the cross industry business opportunities that matter to you, to increase your revenue and develop your business model. What does a successful multi-platform business model look like? How can you increase your turnover? How does business work in other industries? Members of the EAVE network are offered a special £50 discount on the £250 cost of two day attendance.
For further questions regarding the event please contact: bridget.eadie@gmail.com
www.one-media.org

DIRACTORS FESTIVAL IN LUXEMBOURG
The 2nd edition of Luxembourg City’s International Film Festival “DirActors” (formerly “DirActor’s Cut”) took place in different locations of Luxembourg-City (Utopia, Utopolis, Cinémathèque) between October 15 and October 19.
www.diractors.org



EAVE festival NEWS- September 2008


***Strong presence of EAVE producers & films in Toronto, San Sebastian and Utrecht***
***EAVE producers & projects selected for Netherlands Production Platform, Nordisk Forum and Namur***


TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (September 4-13:)

CONTEMPORARY WORLD CINEMA
- CLOUD 9, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
- EAVE 2006 project KHAMSA by Karim Dridi
- RESTLESS, co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
- PANDORA’S BOX, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
- TEZA, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril, EAVE 2000 graduate Marie-Michèle Cattelain
- A NO-HIT NO-RUN SUMMER, sales: Max Films (EAVE 2008 participant Félize Frappier)
VISIONS
- SALAMANDRA, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin
- UNSPOKEN, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
DISCOVERY
- BETTER THINGS, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Samm Haillay, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, associate producer: EAVE 2002 graduate David Smith
- SNOW, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
- DELTA, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
CANADA FIRST!
- BORDERLINE, producer: Roger Frappier, Max Films (EAVE 2008 graduate Félize Frappier)
MIDNIGHT MADNESS
- JCVD, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges
REAL TO REEL
BLIND LOVES, sales: Autlook Filmsales (EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger)
VANGUARD
KISSES, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher
www.tiffg.ca


International Film Festival, Astana (Kazakhstan, September 7-13:)

- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
- ABSURDISTAN, director/producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer
www.eurasiaiff.kz


NETHERLANDS FILM FESTIVAL (September 24-October 3:)

OPENING FILM
- IN REAL LIFE by Robert Jan Westdijk, producer: IDTV Film (EAVE 2008 participant Céline Baggen)
GOLDEN CALF COMPETITION
- BLOOD BROTHERS, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Reinier Selen
- THE LETTER FOR THE KING, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina Brokemper)
- CALIMUCHO, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper
- DUNYA & DESIE, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit
- HOW DO I SURVIVE MYSELF?, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
- MORISSON GETS A BABY SISTER, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
MAIN PROGRAMME
- MEGUMI, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate John Williams
Nederlandse film in 12 moorden
- THE PREACHER, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate and President Jani Thiltges, EAVE expert David P. Kelly
De Meester en de Leerling
- GUERNSEY, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper, co-producer: EAVE
2002 graduate Rudolf Mestdagh
- TUSSENSTAND, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit
KIDSBIOS
- CRUSADE IN JEANS, co-producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges
VLAAMSE FILMS
- LOS, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
Gast van het Jaar - Monic Hendrickx
- NADINE, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Ellen de Waele
- SOUTH, co-producer: EAVE2002 graduate Rudolf Mestdagh
GRENZELOOS
- THE SALT OF THIS SEA, producer: EAVE 1999 Graduate Marianne Dumoulin
NFF OP TV
- TWIN SISTERS, co-producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and President Jani Thiltges
- WOLFSBERGEN, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Rudolf Mestdagh
- TUSSENSTAND, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit

HOLLAND FILM MEETING
EAVE is proud to continue its partnership with Holland Film Meeting. On Friday, September 26, 2008, at 17h30 at the Karel V, EAVE Chief Executive Alan Fountain will present an overview and update of EAVE's activities and will be available for one-on-one meetings with interested producers.

NETHERLANDS PRODUCTION PLATFORM
International projects 2008:
- THE BEAR (Romania), producer: Libra Film (EAVE 2008 participant Tudor Giurgiu)
- CORPS DIPLOMATIQUE (Switzerland), producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Tunje Berns’ company Dschoint Ventschr (Samir)
- THE RUNWAY (Ireland), producer: Fastnet Films (EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher)
Seeing Chris (Ireland), producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Leslie Mc Kimm’s company Newgrange Pictures (Jackie Larkin)
- SVINALÄNGORNA (Sweden), producer: Hepp Film (EAVE 2002 graduate Helena Danielsson)
- SHANGHAI BELLEVILLE (France), producer: Clandestine (Juliette Grandmont) & Charivari Films (EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau)
www.filmfestival.nl

NORDISK PANORAMA (September 26-October 1:)

NORDIC DOCUMENTARY
Maggie in Wonderland, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Anna Byvald
NEW NORDIC VOICES
THE LEFTOVERS, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Margarete Jangard
NORDIC SHORT FILM
MAJKEN, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Helene Lindholm
www.nordiskpanorama.com

NORDISK FORUM:
22 new projects have been selected, 7 of which are produced by EAVE producers:
- CASSADY CREDENTIALS, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Margarete Jangard
- THE FOREST, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Margarete Jangard
- RULES OF SINGLE LIFE, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Karle Aho
- LIKE A PASCHA, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Aberg
- INGA FROM SWEDEN, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helena Danielsson
- SKYWATCHERS, producer: EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Moller
- BLACK POWER MIXTAPE, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Anna Byvald
www.nordiskpanorama.com

SAN SEBASTIAN (September 18-26:)

COMPETITION
- PANDORA’s BOX, co-prodcuer: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
ZABALTEGI PEARLS
- LEMON TREE, co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina Brokemper)
ZABALTEGI NEW DIRECTORS
- UNSPOKEN, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
HORIZONTES LATINOS
- LA SANGRE BROTA, co-producers: EAVE 2000 graduate Claire Lajoumard and EAVE
2007 graduate Hans Eddy Schreiber’s company Neue Cameo Film (producer: Ole
Landsjöaasen)
www.sansebastianfestival.com

INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF FRENCH SPEAKING FILM NAMUR (Sept 26-Oct 3:)

COMPETITION
- PUISQUE NOUS SOMMES NES by Jean-Pierre Duret et Andréa Santana, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
COMPETITION EMILE CANTILLON
- BORDERLINE, producer: Roger Frappier, Max Films (EAVE 2008 graduate Félize Frappier)
REGARDS
- I AM FROM TITOV VELES, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska, co-producers: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi, EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum
- EAVE 2006 project KHAMSA by Karim Dridi
- LE PREMIER VENU by Jacques Doillon, producers: EAVE 1992 & president Jani Thiltges,
EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien
Delloye
- LE SEL DE LA MER by Annemarie JACIR, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne
DUMOULIN
- UN ETE SANS POINT NI COUP SUR by Francis Leclerc, sales : Max Films, CAN (EAVE 2008 participant Félize Frappier)
CINEMA BELGE FRANCOPHONE : FOCUS SUR 2007
- ELDORADO by Bouli Lanners, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- VOLEURS DE CHEVAUX by Micha Wald, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
CINEMA BELGE FLAMAND
- LOS by Jan Verheyen, producer: Bos Bros (EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal)

NAMUR PRODUCTION FORUM
- LES AUTONAUTES DE LA COSMOROUTE by Werner PENZEL, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nézan
EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart will be part of the jury for the Forum.
www.fiff.be

OTHER FESTIVALS

Feature documentary TRYING FREEDOM by Thor Bekkavik, produced by EAVE graduate Carsten Aanonsen (Indie Film, NO) was shown at the Haugesund Film Festival in Norway last month. The cinema release is schedule for October.
www.indiefilm.no

EN ATTENDANT LES HOMMES aka AWAITING FOR MEN by Katy Léna Ndiaye, produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Aurélien Bodinaux (Neon Rouge, B) will be shown at the ECRAN TOTAL festival in Brussels this month.
www.neonrouge.com

ABSURDISTAN, directed and produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer, has been selected at the following festivals this month: the Riga Film Festival (Latvia) and the Athens Film Festival in Greece.
www.absurdistan-derfilm.de / www.arsenals.lv/en/a/1788 / www.aiff.gr

Nature documentary Die Flusshirten der Save of the series ZIVILISIERTE WILDNIS by Anne Mesecke, Heribert Schöller and Guido Kilbert, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs, will be shown at the Serbian Mefest festival in competition.
www.mefest.org

Short film VEM aka I KNOW by Jan Cvitkovič, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar (Staragara, SI) has been selected for the International Film Festival Oldenburg in Germany.
www.filmfest-oldenburg.de



EAVE NEWSLETTER September 2008:

***AWARDS: Locarno, Sarajevo and Venice***
***NOMINATIONS: Oscar entries for Best Foreign Film***
***Upcoming Deadlines: EAVE 2009 Producer Workshops, EAVE Professional Coaching in Dubai, Francophone Co-production Meetings Paris, CineMart, Baltic Event, Berlinale Talent Campus, Green Action...***
***UPCOMING EAVE WORKSHOPS in Haifa, Ramallah and Ourense***
***SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS: Power to the Pixel in London***


IN DEVELOPMENT/PRE-PRODUCTION
EAVE 2008 project WEEKEND (director: Gábor Herendi; co-writers: Peter Gál, Csaba Tóth, producer: Gergely Fodor) has been granted 21,700 euro development funding from MMKA (Hungarian Motion Picture Public Foundation).
www.bpfilms.hu

Animation film RUMINI, based on the IBBY award winner's bestseller, produced by EAVE graduate Emöke Vagasi (Cor Leonis Films, HU) has just received development funding from the Hungarian Filmjus Foundation.
www.corleonisfilms.hu

Feature documentary KURDISHLOVER by Clarisse Hahn, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan (Les Films du Present, F) has received a development grant "Brouillon d'un rêve" given by the French Documentary Authors Society SCAM. Feature LES AUTONAUTES DE LA COSMOROUTE by Werner Penzel (STEP ACROSS THE BORDER, MIDDLE OF THE MOMENT), also produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan, has been supported in the summer session by the Provence Alpes Cote d'Azur region for a feature film production grant.
www.lesfilmsdupresent.fr

EAVE 2007 project BEST SERVED COLD, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Edward Porembny (AMP Polska, PL), has just been granted development support by the Polish Film Institute. The project has also been supported by MEDIA development. Edward Porembny and company AMP Polska are also currently in pre-production for a documentary film for HBO, MEN FOR HIRE.
www.amppolska.com

Documentary DOUBLE TAKE by Johan Grimonprez, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Emmy Oost (ZAP-O-MATIK, B) and EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards (NiKo Film, D), has received 45,000 euro production support by the German fund NORDMEDIA.
www.nikofilm.de

At their latest funding session, Medienboard has granted support to the following EAVE producers and their projects: NELLY’S ABENTEUER by Jens Becker (producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik), RED CROSS by Hugo Vieira da Silva (producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers), BUDDHA’S LITTLE FINGER by Tony Pemberton (producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter), EVERY DAY IS A HOLIDAY by Dima El-Horr (producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards), VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS by Victor Kossakovsky (producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert).
www.medienboard.de

IN PRODUCTION

Ipso Facto Films (producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson) are currently in production on two films: VALHALLA RISING, an action adventure from director Nicolas Winding Refn (Pusher Trilogy/ Fear X) starring Mads Mikkelson. SOULED OUT, a coming of age film set against the backdrop of the Northern Soul movement. The film written by Jeff Williams is starring Martin Compston, Alfie Allen, Nichola Burley, Felicity Jones & Pat Shortt. SOULED OUT is director Shimmy Marcus’ second film following HEADRUSH. Principal photography commenced in the UK city of Stoke on Trent on August 18th. The film is produced by EAVE 19998 graduate Christine Alderson and EAVE 2002 graduate Natasha Carlish.
www.ipsofactofilms.com

Prague-based Dawson Productions (EAVE 2005 graduate Ivana Vrbikova) is preparing to begin production on EAVE 2005 project THREE SEASONS IN HELL, a co-production between the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. Photography on the EUR 3m project started on August 22 on location in Prague and will conclude November 17. The film is directed by Tomas Masin from his own script, adapted from a story by Lubomír Drozd, which was in turn inspired by the memoirs of Czech literary icon Egon Bondy. Icelandic cinematographer Karl Oskarsson will serve as DP. The film is produced by Dawson Productions, with Trigon Productions of Slovakia and Babelsberg Film of Germany serving as co-producers. The film is supported by Ceska televize, UPP, Soundsquare, MEDIA, Eurimages, the Slovak Ministry of Culture and the State Fund for Support and Development of Czech Cinematography. Falcon will distribute the film in the Czech Republic, Capitol in Slovakia, with a release in late October 2009. The producers are in discussions with Polish and German distributors.
www.dawson.cz

Shooting begins early October 2008 on Castellan & Catalan language feature-length fiction Lo Más Importante de la Vida es No Haber Muerto: 3 days near Barcelona, Spain, and 5 weeks in Geneva, Switzerland. Cast includes: Emilio Gutiérrez Caba, Carles Arquimbau, Mercè Montalà, Irene Montalà and Albert Ausellé. The film is a tragic comedy that grotesquely tells the story of a man who at the age of 65 suddenly experiences the collapse of the essential aspects of his world, and discovers he has been living a lie. The film is a humanistic tale of betrayal and forgiveness, set against a musical background and the Franco era in Spain, a period of political deceit and distortion of reality. Lo Más Importante de la Vida es No Haber Muerto is a film by OLPAMAdiversion Films (collective of three Spanish and Swiss Directors: Pablo Martin, Marc Recuenco and Olivier Pictet), produced by EAVE 2008 participant Saskia Vischer.

The shooting of Micha Wald’s next feature SIMON KONIANSKI, produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Versus Production, BE), has started on August 18 in Belgium and will take place until the end of October in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. The Canadian co-production has been granted support by SODEC (Québec, Canada).
www.versusproduction.be

German actress Julia Jentsch is to appear with Monica Bleibtreu in Swiss director Bettina Oberli's next feature THE MURDER FARM which begins shooting in the Sauerland and Eifel regions of Germany this month. The euro 3.8m co-production between Wüste Film West (EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel) and Constantin Film with Zurich-based Hugofilm Productions is based on Andrea Maria Schenkel's novel TANNÖD about the gruesome murder of a whole family in a rural community. Backing for the project has come from Filmstiftung NRW, Swiss broadcaster SF, the Federal Office for Culture (BAK) and the Zurich Film Foundation. Constantin Film will release theatrically in Germany.
www.hugofilm.ch

The Temptation of St Tony, the new feature film by Veiko Õunpuu, the director of the acclaimed AUTUMN BALL, both produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa (Homeless Bob Production, EE), is going to be co-produced by Finland’s Bronson Club and Sweden’s Atmo (EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Aberg). Õunpuu’s new film, based on his own original screenplay, will draw inspiration from the legend of Saint Anthony, using a contemporary setting and storyline to reflect on goodness: Can someone become a saint today and be sincerely and selflessly good?
Estonian actor Taavi Eelmaa, who plays the unforgettable coatroom attendant in AUTUMN BALL, will take the lead. Principal photography will take place between September 20-November 10, and the Finnish premiere is set for September 10, 2009. The Euro 983,080 project won the MEDIA European Talent Award at the last Cannes Film Festival and was just awarded Euro 80,000 in production support from the Finnish Film Foundation.
www.homelessbob.ee

Norwegian Penelope Film are now producing in both Norwegian and English the largest Norwegian family movie production YOHAN by Grete Salomonsen. The first round of filming began the first week of February, 2008 and the film is be relased August 2009. YOHAN is an action-filled family movie with an historic background. The manuscript is based on true stories about child wanderings which occurred in South of Norway between 1800- 1910. A lot of these child wanderes emigrated to USA 15 years old to survive. The movie is considered one of the largest Norwegian family movies based on the budget of 35 million Norwegian crowns, the number of actors, and the number of locations. Line producer is EAVE 1998 graduate Odd G. Iversen.
http://www.yohan.no/en

IN POSTPRODUCTION

Moxie Makers are currently in post-production on WHO KILLED NANCY? a feature documentary uncovering the truth behind the infamous murder of Nancy Spungen, girlfriend of punk legend Sid Vicious. The film is featuring never before seen live footage of The Sex Pistols. Writer-Director: Alan G. Parker. The producers are EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson and Ben Timlett.
www.ipsofactofilms.com
 
CURRENTLY PLAYING

SALT OF THIS SEA by Annemarie Jacir, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne DUMOULIN, was released on the 3rd of September in 41 theatres throughout France.
www.jbaproduction.com

Andreas Dresen’s CLOUD 9, produced by EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel, has been released in Germany by Senator on September 4.
www.wolke9.senator.de

WEISSE LILIEN by Christian Frosch, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, will be released in Germany on September 11.
www.weisse-lilien-der-film.de

EAVE 2003 project BALKAN TRAFFIC by Markus Stein and Milan Pusić, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs will have its premiere in Leipzig on September 13 and will be released in Germany in December.
www.hoferichterjacobs.de

FALKENBERG FAREWELL by Jesper Ganslandt, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Anna Anthony (Memfis Film, SE) in co-production with Film i Väst, Zentropa and Sveriges Television, will be released in Belgium on September 17.
www.falkenbergfarewell.com

ON TV

KURT GERRONS KARUSSELL by EAVE 1995 graduate Ilona Ziok was broadcast on August 23 at 20h15 on PHOENIX. See excerpts:
Max Rabe: Das Kleine Nachtgespenst: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7z_bZ2D98o
Ben Becker: Ode an Berlin: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_R8OHOU6Go

DIE KÖNIGE DER NUTZHOLZGEWINNUNG by Matthias Keilich, produced by EAVE 2006 participant Nicole Gerhards (Nikofilm, D), was shown on prime time on ZDF on August 25.
http://www.die-koenige-der-nutzholzgewinnung.de/

OFFSET by Didi Danquart, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (noirfilm, D) in co-production with EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril (Unlimited, F) was shown on ARTE on August 27 at 23h and on August 29 at 14h55.
www.noirfilm.de

THE FORSAKEN LAND by Vimukthi Jayasundara, produced by EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril (Unlimited, F) in cooperation with EAVE 2007 graduate Michel Klein (Les Films Hatari, F) was broadcast on ARTE on September 3 at 22h50.
www.unlimited-films.net

REINE GESCHMACKSSACHE by Ingo Rasper, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (noirfilm, D) was shown on September 8 at 22h30 on German regional channel SWR.
www.noirfilm.de

MFG Star winner AUTOPILOTEN by Bastian Günther, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Joachim Ortmanns (Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion, D) will be broadcast on SWR on September 10 at 22h30.
www.lichtblick-film.de

EN ATTENDANT LES HOMMES aka AWAITING FOR MEN by Katy Léna Ndiaye, produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Aurélien Bodinaux (Neon Rouge, B) will be broadcast on ARTE on September 22 at 18h00 and on September 29 at 14h00.
www.neonrouge.com

ON DVD

The DVD of documentary AWAITING FOR MEN by Katy Léna Ndiaye, produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Aurélien Bodinaux, is now available with EN, NL, PT, ES and FR subtitles.
www.neonrouge.com

Nature documentary series ZIVILISIERTE WILDNIS, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs, is now available on DVD under the title WUNDERSAME WILDNIS. TEIL I.
http://www.hoferichterjacobs.de/download/shop_doku-reihe.php

UK-based distributor Yume Pictures will handle the DVD release of Nic Roeg's PUFFBALL. The DVD, out from September 22, includes extras such as interviews with Roeg and the film stars, a making-of featurette, trailer, podcast, photo gallery and more. The supernatural drama is about a young woman who moves to a remote area and becomes pregnant. Her neighbors turn against her and the unborn child. PUFFBALL is produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Paul Donovan.
www.grandpictures.ie

NOMINATIONS

Teenage drama DUNYA AND DESIE by Dana Nechushtan, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit and company Lemming Film (NL) has been selected as the Dutch Oscar entry for best foreign-language film.
Among the 5 films competing to be the German Oscar entry is CLOUD 9 by Andreas Dresen, produced by EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel.
www.lemmingfilm.nl / www.wolke9.senator.de

The European Film Academy has announced the nominees for this year's People's Choice Award. Among the 12 films is BEN X by Nic Balthazar, co-produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal (Bos Bros Film & TV Productions, NL). From September 1 to October 31, film fans across the continent can vote for their favourite European film online. This year's winner will be announced December 6 at the 21st European Film Awards Ceremony in Copenhagen.
www.peopleschoiceaward.org

Tom Collins’ IFTA winning feature film KINGS, co-produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Michael Casey, is nominated for Prix Europa 2008, the biggest European multi platform competition for television, radio and emerging media. Also nominated in different categories: NACHT VOR AUGEN (producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski) and THE STRANGER IN ME (producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards). The awards ceremony will take place in Berlin and Potsdam from 18 to 25 October 2008.
www.prix-europa.de/en/

7 films produced by EAVE producers are on this year’s selection list, the list of films recommended for a nomination for the European Film Awards 2008. With 27 countries represented, the list illustrates the great diversity in European cinema. Among the selected films are: DELTA (producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi), HOME (producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ebba Sinzinger), I AM FROM TITOV VELES (producer: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska, co-producers: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi, EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum), LEMON TREE (producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm -  Bettina Brokemper), LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES (producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-producers: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin), BLACK ICE (producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Karle Aho) and CLOUD 9 (producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel). In the coming weeks, the 1,800 members of the European Film Academy will
vote for the nominations in the different award categories. The nominations will then be announced on 8 November at the Sevilla European Film Festival in Spain.
www.europeanfilmacademy.org

AWARDS

LOCARNO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
- Golden Leopard for Best Actor for Tayanç Ayaydin for THE MARKET by Ben Hopkins, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
- Variety Award Piazza Grande for BACK SOON by Solveig Anspach, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
- First Prize of the Youth Jury and Don Quijote Award for YURI’S DAY, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
www.pardo.ch

SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL
- Best Documentary for Boris Despodov’s CORRIDOR #8, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel
- Special jury mentions for short films I KNOW (VEM) by Jan Cvitkovič (producer: EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar) and Timur Makarevic’s WAKE (producer: EAVE 2008 participant Amra Baksic-Camo)
- CICAE award for Kornel Mundruzco’s DELTA (producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi)
www.sff.ba

VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
- Jury Special Prize and Osella for Best Script, Special mention - SIGNIS Prize, Cinema for UNICEF commendation, “Cinema for peace and the richness of diversity” Award from CinemAvvenire for TEZA by Haile Gerima, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril et EAVE 2000 graduate Marie-Michèle Cattelain
- Coppa Volpi for Best Actress for Dominique Blanc in L’AUTRE by Patrick Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
www.labiennale.org

OTHER AWARDS

The FIRST STEPS AWARD for diploma films of German speaking film academies (worth 25,000 euro) was given to director Brigitte Maria Bertele and scriptwriter Johanna Stuttmann for NACHT VOR AUGEN, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (noirfilm, D). FIRST STEPS is organised by the German Film Academy, Mercedes-Benz, Sat.1, Spiegel TV and teamWorx/UFA.
www.firststeps.de

Creative documentary SCENES DE CHASSE AU SANGLIER by Claudio Pazienza, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan (Les Films du Present, F) was honored with an “Etoile la Scam 2008”, an award by the French Documentary Authors Society for the best documentary film broadcast on TV in 2007.
www.lesfilmsdupresent.fr

The Amanda (Norwegian Oscar) for Best Documentary went to BIG JOHN by Håvard Bustnes, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Dag Hoel (Faction Film AS, NO).
www.factionfilm.no

Steph Green’s multi award-winning short film NEW BOY, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Tamara Anghie, has been awarded the Shannon's Way Award for a short film promoting Human Rights at the prestigious Melbourne International Film Festival.

UPCOMING DEADLINES

UPCOMING APPLICATION DEADLINE: EAVE COACHING FOR PRODUCERS IN DUBAI
Professional Coaching for Producers: For the second time in a row, the Dubai International Film Festival and EAVE are offering a high quality professional development programme for film producers from Arab countries from December 12 to 16 in Dubai.
The Dubai Film Festival will pay participants’ travel and hotel costs. The admission fee is USD 100.
Application deadline: October 1, 2008.
Application Forms and more information on www.eave.org/dubai08.html

DON’T MISS THE DEADLINE FOR THE EAVE 2009 PRODUCER WORKSHOPS
EAVE is one of the leading training and development providers for producers in Europe.
Each year fifty participants are selected to take part in three one-week long workshops.
EAVE is aimed at producers, both fiction and documentary, who are already working in the film and television industries who wish to begin to operate on a European wide basis by increasing their knowledge of producing and co-producing in Europe and by building up a pan European professional network. We also welcome applications from associated branches of the industry, e.g. commissioning, funding, legal and finance, media administration.
Application deadline: October 1, 2008.
Application Forms and more information on http://www.eave.org/admission.html

BALTIC EVENT: CALL FOR ENTRIES
Baltic Event Co-production Market takes place during the Black Nights Film Festival from November 30 to December 3 in Tallinn, Estonia. The Market is open for the projects from the Baltic countries, Central and Eastern Europe, Russia and Scandinavia.
Baltic Event Co-production Market offers productive opportunities to network and discuss projects in the special film festival atmosphere in the medieval Old Town of Tallinn. Participation in Baltic Event Co-production Market will give the producers an efficient possibility to create or to extend their international network. The Co-production Market is part of Baltic Event, the screening of Baltic newest feature films.
Submission deadline: 15 September, 2008.
For submissions and more detailed information, please contact: balticevent@poff.ee
http://2008.poff.ee/?todo=view_page&lang=2&id=601

francophone CO-PRODUCTION MEETINGS PARIS
The 5th Rencontres de Coproduction Francophone (Francophone Co-production Meetings) are taking place in Paris from November 26-28, 2008 on the occasion of the 12th edition of Cinema du Québec in Paris. The Rencontres are aimed to stimulate co-production between producers sharing the French language. 15 projects will be selected coming from Quebec, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Swiss, Europe and the Mediterranean countries. A selective of 20 producers, looking for co-production, will also participate to meet with the selected projects. This year, the event will also welcome a delegation of Dutch producers thanks to the support of Holland Film Meeting. The program is mostly based on one-on-one meetings between producers and with industry professionals. Deadline for registration: September 29, 2008.
For more information&registration, contact Gabrielle Béroff-Gallard: Gabrielle@vision-in-motion.com or go to www.sodec.gouv.qc.ca.
This event is sponsored by SODEC (Société de Développement des Entreprises Culturelles du Québec) with the support of Centre du cinéma et de l’audiovisuel, Communauté française de Belgique et Wallonie-Bruxelles Images, Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC), Film Fund Luxembourg, Holland Film Meeting, Office fédéral de la culture suisse, Swiss Films and Téléfilm Canada, in association with EAVE.

CINEMART 2009: CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
From 21st of January to 1st of February the 38th edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam will take place. During the festival, the international co-production market CineMart will already celebrate its 26th edition. CineMart will take place from January 25-29, 2009 and will, over the course of five days, again present around 35 international projects of acclaimed directors and their younger talented colleagues to approximately 850 professionals from the international film industry, ranging from sales-agents, producers and distributors to television buyers and funding agencies. The deadline for submitting projects to CineMart will be October 1st, 2008.
Projects can be in various stages of development, must have not been presented at other international co-production markets (with the exception of official partners of CineMart), must have a director attached and have international potential. Submission deadline: 1 October 2008.
Information and entry form: www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com

Apply now for the Berlinale Talent Campus 2009
The Berlinale Talent Campus (February 7-12, 2009) is an international summit of talented up-and-coming filmmakers. During the 59th Berlin International Film Festival young professionals from all over the world will have the opportunity to learn from top experts and build up international networks. Actors, cinematographers, directors, editors, film critics, producers, production designers, screenwriters, sound designers, composers, visual artists are invited to apply.
The Campus offers a huge variety of different programme elements. Deadline: October 8, 2008. Information and application: www.berlinale-talentcampus.de

Asia-Europe TV Documentary Co-production: Green Action
The Asia-Europe TV Documentary Co-production: Green Action brings together participating broadcasters to produce a series of documentaries with a focus on how local communities are responding positively to emerging global environmental challenges.  The call for participation is ongoing. Submission deadline: 3 November 2008
Information: http://www.asef.org/index.php?option=com_project&task=view&id=473

UPCOMING EAVE WORKSHOPS

MINI EAVE WORKSHOP AT THE HAIFA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (ISRAEL)
For the first time in Israel - a special EAVE workshop from October 15-17, 2008 at the Haifa International Film Festival in association with the Israel Film Fund and the Israel Film and Television Producers Association. EAVE experts, the newly appointed General Secretary of EURIMAGES, Roberto Olla, Linda Beath (Ideal Filmworks, IT),  Danny Krausz (DOR Film, AT) and EAVE Chief Executive Alan Fountain will conduct workshops on production companies’ financial, business and development strategies, financing sources for development and packages in Europe, co-production with Europe, legal aspects of co-production, packaging and development. The workshops will include Israeli/European case studies among which RESTLESS by Amos Kollek (2008, producers: Talia Kleinhendler and Michael Tapuah, co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye). An additional European co-production case study will be presented (TBA). The number of participants is limited. Information and Registration for Israeli producers and professional visitors of the Festival: lart@netvision.net.il (Ruth Lev Ari) or christinaz@ethos.co.il.
Early deadline: September 20, late deadline: October 2. 
www.haifaff.co.il  

The workshops will culminate in Our Story – 5th International Pitching Conference (Ruth Lev Ari, Amit Breuer) on Sunday, October 19th with international broadcasters, film funds directors, producers and filmmakers to be presented with a pitching session of 10 pre-selected feature and TV films for co-production at various stages of development.
www.haifaff-ourstory.com

PROFESSIONAL COACHING FOR PRODUCERS IN RAMALLAH (PALESTINE)
In partnership with Shashat and the British Council, EAVE is organising a special Workshop in Ramallah on October 21 and 22, 2008. On the programme are sessions on the role of the Producer / Budgeting, finance and financial planning / Film Finance in Europe as well as an overview about European markets, co-production and networks by EAVE finance consultant Linda Beath and EAVE Chief Executive Alan Fountain. Please email alia@shashat.org to register.
www.shashat.org

EAVE / OUFF MASTERCLASS IN OURENSE (GALICIA, SPAIN)
Every year, the Ourense International Film Festival (October 11-18, 2008) presents a selection of the most innovative and challenging feature films, documentaries, short films, animated films,  and visual arts from all over the globe, aiming to offer a platform for developing independent films and audiovisual works. This year for the first time in partnership with the Ourense International Film Festival, EAVE is organizing a special EAVE / OUFF Masterclass during the festival. The Masterclasses will take place on October 16 and 17.
Three of EAVE’s leading tutors will offer Masterclasses on some of the most important facets of the producer’s work. In addition to setting out some broad principles each of them will call upon examples from their own experience and will be encouraging an interactive relationship with master class participants.  EAVE script consultant Clare Downs will explore approaches to script structure and strategies for the development process. She will look in particular at the creative relationship between producer, writer and director. EAVE 2003 graduate and consultant Roshanak Behesht Nedjad will discuss the crucial role of the producer in packaging, marketing, promotion and pitching during the development and financing process. In addition, various aspects of how to approach co-production in Europe today will be explored: building relationships with co-producers, the do’s and don’ts of co-production and typical European co-production financing structures. There will also be a general presentation of EAVE and EAVE Deputy Chief Executive Kristina Trapp will be available to meet producers interested. For registration, please contact eave@eave.org
www.ouff.org

SEPTEMBER SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS

POWER TO THE PIXEL: THE DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION & FILM INNOVATION FORUM
Discover how to build sustainable businesses and careers in this new digital era!
POWER TO THE PIXEL is back again, bringing together the most pioneering visionaries, film-makers and entrepreneurs who are changing the way independent films are financed, created and reach audiences. This year, in addition to a cutting-edge conference, the event brings you new and dynamic ways to exchange ideas, get inspired and build partnerships including: workshop sessions, one-to-one meetings, receptions, cross-media project forum, screenings, think tank discussion group. Delegate fee from £40 (incl. VAT). Early Bird discount until September 12, 2008.
Dates: October 22 & 23, 2008 at NFT1, BFI Southbank and the Royal Society for Arts.
Power to the Pixel is organized in association with the Times BFI London Film Festival and funded by SKILLSET, UK Film Council, FDMX, NESTA, Wonderland, Film London, Screen International, YouTube. Registration and further info: www.powertothepixel.com



EAVE NEWSLETTER August 2008

IN DEVELOPMENT/PRE-PRODUCTION

The two documentaries BEHIND THE LIGHTS by Sandra Sánchez and THEY COME FOR THE GOLD, THEY COME FOR IT ALL by Pablo D’alo Abba and Cristian Harbaruk have been selected for support by the Ibermedia Programme. Both films are produced by EAVE 2008 participant Fernanda del Nido (Tic Tac Producciones, E).
www.tictacproducciones.com

The selection committee of ARTE France Cinema has selected EAVE 2007 project FIRST OF ALL, FELICIA by Razvan Radulescu for co-production. The film is produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon and EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril.
www.artefrance.fr / www.hifilm.ro

The Polish-German Co-Development Fonds (DPCF) has granted 30,000 euros development support to THE POPE PROJECT (working title), produced by Berlin based Flying Moon Filmproduktion (EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers) in co-production with Opus Film (PL). DPCF has been founded by the Polish Film Institute, MDM and Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg.
www.medienboard.de

At their 3rd funding session in 2008, MDM has granted 4.9 mio euro support. Among the supported projects are several films produced by EAVE producers: BUDDHA’S LITTLE FINGER (EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter), BLACK DEATH (EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer), DER HUNGERWINTER (EAVE 2000 graduate Simone Baumann), VIVAN LAS ANTIPODAS! (EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert), HACKER – ZWISCHEN UPTOPIE UND REALISMUS (EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs), GUTENBERG (EAVE 2002 graduate Leander Carrell), WEISSE LILIEN (EAVE 2002 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder), VERTRAUTE FREMDE (EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges, EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye).
www.mdm-online.de

In development: ILLEGAL, directed by Olivier Masset-Depasse and produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Versus Production, BE) - to be shot in October 2009.
The project has been selected for the “New Cinema Network” co-production market section organised within the context of the Rome Film Festival 2008 (October 2008).  Within this context, CAGES, Olivier-Masset Depasse’s first feature, will be screened in the Panorama section of the festival.
Another Versus production, THE INVADER by Nicolas Provost, will also be shot in early 2009.  
www.versusproduction.be

This year's Hubert Bals Fund Plus programme selections includes two films to be produced by EAVE producers: Paz Fabrega's COLD SEA, produced by Costa Rica's Temporal Films with co-producers Isabella Films (NL), Les Films du Requin (EAVE 2007 graduate Jean des Forêts, F), Tic Tac (EAVE 2008 participant Fernanda del Nido, E) and Pimenta (MEX). Aktan Arym Kubat's THE LIGHT will see Dutch co-producer Volya Films (EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin) joining the Kyrgyz project along with ASAP Films (France), Pallas Films (Germany), Man's Films (Belgium) and VVISS Films (Russia). The Netherlands Film Fund has made $317,470 (Euros 200,000) available for Hubert Bals Fund Plus for 2006, 2007 and 2008.
http://professionals.filmfestivalrotterdam.com/eng/hubert_bals_fund.aspx

At this summer funding session, the advances on receipts committee of the French CNC selected Clarisse Hahn’s documentary project KURDISH LOVER, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nézan (Les Films du Présent).
www.lesfilmsdupresent.fr

Zurich-based company Hugofilm are joining forces with German partners Wüste Film West (EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel) and Constantin Film to produce a feature based on Andrea Maria Schenkel’s novel THE MURDER FARM. The film will be directed by young Swiss filmmaker Bettina Oberli who, after receiving acclaim for NORTH WIND (2004), enjoyed domestic box office success (595,102 admissions) with the comedy LATE BLOOMERS (2006). The title will star Monica Bleibtreu and Julia Jentsch. Shooting will take place from September-November in North Rhine-Westphalia. The film will be made on a budget of €3.8m, co-produced by Swiss Television, with backing from the Federal Office for Culture and Zurich Film Foundation.
www.hugofilm.ch

LE PERE DE MES ENFANTS by Mia Hansen-Love, produced by Les Films Palléas in co-production with EAVE 1998 graduate Oliver Damian (27 Films Production, D) has been supported in the framework of the French-German mini-treaty (220,000 euro).
www.ffa.de

The MEDIA Programme has announced 3,641,000 € support for 24 European TV co-productions. Among the supported projects are: Seuthes l’immortel, les secrets du roi thrace by Zlatina Rousseva et Delphine Morel, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Serge Guez (Crescendo Films, F) and RED OIL, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert (MAJA.DE, D).
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/index_en.htm


IN PRODUCTION

Swiss-German-Luxembourg co-production THE WELFARE WORKER by director Lutz Konermann is starting to shoot in Luxembourg on August 5. Written by Konermann and Felix Benesch, the film tells the true story of the rise and fall of notorious Swiss liar and swindler Hans-Peter Stalder. In the late 1970s and the ‘80s, he became rich by allowing over 200 people to use a bank account to transfer money from dubious origins. Over 11 million Swiss Francs (€6.75m) allowed Stalder a luxurious lifestyle with two wives and many lovers. Filming will continue through the end of September on various locations in Luxembourg and Switzerland. The dramatic comedy with tragicomic touches should be ready by the end of the year. THE WELFARE WORKER is produced by EAVE 1989 graduate Rolf Schmid (Fama Film, CH), in co-production with EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges (Paul Thiltges Distributions, L) and Anita Elsani for Elsani Film (D).
www.famafilm.ch

The shooting of LA REGATE, first feature by Bernard Bellefroid, produced by Artemis Productions, Samsa Film and Liaison Cinématographique (EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye,) is starting on August 4. The film is starring Thierry Hancisse, Sergi Lopez and Jeoffrey Verbrugge and has received funding from Wallimage.
www.samsa-film.com

In production: The King of karaoke, a road movie about the loss of innocence, a dark comedy about the difference between being loved for who you really are and being loved for what you can deliver, a saga about the magic force in true friendships. THE KING OF KARAOKE is produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Martin Persson (Anagram Production) and EAVE 2008 participant And Annika Hellström (Cinenic Film & TV). The shooting is currently taking place around Gothenburg.
www.cinenicfilm.se

The shooting of Micha Wald’s next feature SIMON KONIANSKI, produced by Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Versus Production, BE), will start on August 18 and will take place until the end of October in Belgium, Poland and Ukraine. The Canadian co-production has been granted support by SODEC (Québec, Canada).
www.versusproduction.be

This month psychological thriller BLACK WATER - written by Elbert van Strien and Paulo van Vliet and to be directed by Van Strien - will be shot in Belgium and The Netherlands. In BLACK WATER the nine-year-old Lisa discovers her sinister new friend is the ghost of the dead twin of Lisa’s mother. Then Lisa’s father also begins to suspect his wife of hiding a terrible secret, resulting in deadly consequences…. The feature will be produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Claudia Brandt and Elbert van Strien for Accento Films in co-production with Nino Lombardo of Prime Time.

Campbell Ryan Productions’ new interactive TV series Aisling’s Diary, directed by IFTA nominated helmers Ronan and Rob Burke and produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Triona Campbell, has started shooting on location in Dublin. The series is commissioned by RTÉ’s Young Peoples’ Dept. The series, starring Chris Newman and newcomer Esther DiMaggieo, follows the life of an Irish dance obsessed Irish American teenager, Aisling, who returns with her family to Ireland and attempts to fit in to a new school and culture. The series will screen as inserts on RTÉ Two’s TTV in September, airing Monday – Friday. A Bebo page will also be launched to accompany the series, containing background information and pieces to camera from the main characters. Aisling’s Diary is created by SOFIA’S DIARY creator and EAVE 2006 graduate Nuno Bernardo and written by Melanie Martinez and Irish writer Róise Goan. Line producer on the series is EAVE 2007 graduate Mairtin de Barra from the Louth, Newry & Mourne Film Commission. Post-production will take place in the UK. Campbell Ryan Productions also recently wrapped filming on series two of hit interactive series SOFIA’S DIARY on location in England. Produced on behalf of Sony Pictures Television International, in association with Bebo, SOFIA’S DIARY has attracted over 16 mio. views on line to date. The series, which is the second highest rated show on UK TV channel FIVER, has already been re-commissioned for a third installment.
www.campbellryanproductions.com

Production has begun on Stephen Burke’s debut feature film Happy Ever Afters in Bray and Wicklow. Brit actors Sally Hawkins and Tom Riley lead the cast. The film follows the story of Freddie and Maura - both are getting married – but not to each other. Maura is set to marry a Nigerian immigrant and Freddie will wed his girlfriend Sophie for the second time. Both weddings collide when they arrive at the same hotel for their receptions. The five week production started in Bray on 14 July shooting on HD. The Irish/German co-production is produced by EAVE 1998 graduate Lesley McKimm of Newgrange Pictures (the company behind the mulit-award winning KINGS) and Christine Rupert of Germany’s Tatfilm. Jane Doolan is exec producer. Post production will take place in Germany. Films Distribution are handling international sales.
www.newgrangepictures.com

Co-directors Glen Leyburn and Lisa Barros D’Sa have begun principal photography in Belfast on their debut feature Cherrybomb. The film features Rupert Grint, Kimberley Nixon and Robert Sheehan.
The film deals with a tumultuous summer in the lives of best friends Malachy and Luke, whose lives are changed forever with the arrival of troubled beauty Michelle. The race for her affections leads the boys to perform some dangerous deeds. CHERRYBOMB is the second film from Mark Huffam and Simon Bosanquet’s Generator Entertainment, after Paddy Breathnach’s Freakdog. They have partnered with Belfast producer and EAVE 2000 graduate Michael Casey’s Green Park Films, who developed the project with Brian Kirk, and James Flynn’s Dublin-based Octagon Films. Financing is from the Irish Film Board, Northern Ireland Screen, BBC Northern Ireland and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland. Robbie Little’s The Little Film Company is handling international sales.
www.greenparkfilms.com


IN POSTPRODUCTION

EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum and company Entre Chien et Loup (BE) is currently in postproduction with three feature films: LES BARONS by Nabil Ben Yadir, co-produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye (Liaison Cinématographique, F). FRAGMENTS OF GRACE, directed by EAVE 1995 graduate Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert (MAJA.DE, D), Bo Films, Entre Chien et Loup and EAVE 1995 graduate Léontine Petit (Lemming Films, NL) has finished shooting in Peru and Belgium. WINDS OF SANDS, WOMEN OF ROCK, feature-length documentary by Nathalie Borgers, produced by Diana Elbaum and Sébastien Delloye, EAVE 1994 graduate and Austrian National Coordinator Erich Lackner (Lotus Film, AT) and Liaison Cinématographique (F) has finished shooting in Niger. 
www.entrechienetloup.be

The rough cut of EAVE 2007 project CASH & MARRY written by Marjan Alcevski and directed by Atanas Georgiev, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisha Juricic (Nukleus, HR) in co-production
with Mischief Films (AT) and Tris Films (MK), has been finished. Short film REFUSE (shot with RedCam), also produced by Sinisha Juricic is as well in postproduction.


CURRENTLY PLAYING


PRIVATE PROPERTY aka NUE PROPRIETE by Joachim Lafosse, produced by EAVE 1999
graduate Donato Rotunno (Tarantula, L) will be released in Germany on August 6.
www.tarantula.lu

Coming to French screens on August 6: SHROOMS by Irish director Paddy Breathnach and produced by Treasure Entertainment's Paddy McDonald and EAVE 1993 graduate Robert Walpole (IRL).

Lenny Abrahamson's second feature GARAGE, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Edward
Guiney (Element Pictures, IRL), will be playing in Belgium from August 13 on.
www.elementfilms.ie

Ottmar Schmiderer’s documentary BACK TO AFRICA, co-produced by EAVE 1994
graduate and group leader Peter Rommel will be released in Germany on August 14.

32A by Marian Quinn, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Tommy Weir (IRL) and EAVE 2003
graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad (D) is coming to Irish cinemas on August 15.
www.32AMovie.com

Solveig Anspach’s BACK SOON, produced by EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman (Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, F) will be released in France on August 20.
www.agatfilms.com

THE TRAP, co-produced by EAVE 1992 graduate Jörg Rothe, will be released in Belgium on August 20.

SON OF RAMBOW, produced by EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute comes to German cinemas on August 21.
www.celluloid-dreams.com

BEN X by Nic Balthazar, co-produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal (Bos
Bros Film & TV Productions, NL) will be released in the UK on August 29.
www.benx.be/eng/defilm.asp

Christian Frosch’s thriller WEISSE LILIEN – SILENT RESIDENT, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, will be released in Austria on August 29.
www.amourfou.at

ELDORADO by Bouli Lanners, produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart, is coming to cinemas in Italy on August 29.
www.versusproduction.be


ON TV

Multi awarded FRAULEIN by Andrea Staka, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Susann Rüdlinger for Dscoint Ventschr (CH), will be shown on German public channel ZDF on August 11 at 23h55. 
www.dschointventschr.ch

Didi Danquart’s OFFSET produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (Noirfilm, D) in co-production with EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril (Unlimited, F) Integral Film and C-Films, will be broadcast on ARTE on August 27.
www.noirfilm.de

ON DVD

Marcel Wehn’s documentary ONE WHO SET FORTH - WIM WENDERS' EARLY YEARS will be released on DVD on August 8. The film has been produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik (Indifilm, D).
www.voneinemderauszog.de / www.kinowelt.de / www.indifilm.de

FESTIVALS

LOCARNO FILM FESTIVAL (June 28 – July 2: www.pardo.ch)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
- KISSES, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher
- MAR NERO, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon
- THE MARKET, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
- YURI’S DAY, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
PIAZZA GRANDE
- NORTH FACE, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz
- BACK SOON, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
- BERLIN CALLING, sales: EAVE 2003 graduate Andreas Rothbauer (BetaCinema, D)
- SON OF RAMBOW, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute
- EAVE 2006 project KHAMSA by Karim Dridi
- short I KNOW by Jan Cvitkovic, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar
LEOPARDS OF TOMORROW
- short film CUILOS by Paz Fabrega, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jean des Forêts
- short film THE YELLOW SMILEY FACE, by Constantin Popescu, delegate producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
- short film EN COMPAGNIE DE LA POUSSIERE by Jacques Molitor, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges
PLAY FORWARD
- Short film ANGEL by Vuk Mitevski, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska
- BRUSILIA by Daniel Lambo, dir./producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Daniel Lamberts
OPEN DOORS SCREENINGS
EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA, producers: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau, EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
APPELLATIONS SUISSE
THE BEAST WITHIN by Yves Scagliola, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Brigitte Hofer

OPEN DOORS
EAVE is proud to continue its partnership with OPEN DOORS at the Locarno International Film Festival, where EAVE graduates get the chance to have privileged access to the OPEN DOORS event. This year the geographical focus will be on cinema in Central and South America and there has been a tremendous response from producers and buyers announcing their attendance at this year’s edition of Locarno.

The EAVE producers attending Open Doors are:
Frédéric Chanteux (BE), Antonin Dedet (F), José Barrio (E), Marleen Slot (NL), Philippe Avril (F), Nicole Gerhards (D), Daniel Lamberts (B), Patrice Nezan (F), Fernanda del Nido (E), Tami Berkovits (CH), Leila Lyytikainen (FI), Jean des Forêts (F), Wolfgang Latteyer (D), Deepak Verma (UK), Ulrike Zimmermann (D), Hans Eddy Schreiber (D), Jonas Dornbach (D), Raymond van der Kaaij (NL), Denis Vaslin (NL), Ceyda Tufan (Turkey).

SPOTTING THE RIGHT TRAINING
From Script Development to Co- and Postproduction
In collaboration with the Industry Office of the Locarno International Film Festival 2008, MEDIA Antenna Berlin-Brandenburg and MEDIA Desk Suisse, together with MEDIA Antenna Torino have organised an information event at this year’s festival, at which a selection of MEDIA-supported advanced training programmes with various focal points will be presented.
Following the brief presentations by Berlinale Talent Campus, ACE, Production Value, EAVE, ELF, ESoDoc, Script & Pitch, Sources2, Nipkow, Insight Out; lectures will be given by two experts from the areas of new media and documentary film. The event will be closed by a networking cocktail. The event will be held in Hotel Belvedere at 2.30 pm on Saturday, August 9, 2008. The deadline for registration is August 6. 2008.
For further information and registration, please contact: info@mediadesk.ch


SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL (July 2-7: www.sff.ba)

OPENING FILM
SNOW by Aida Begic Zubcevic, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
IN COMPETITION
- KINO LIKA by Dalibor Matanic, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic
- documentary DIAGNOSIS S.B.H. by Enes Zlatar, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Amra Baksic Camo
- short film I KNOW by Jan Cvitkovic, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar
- short animation ANGEL by Vuk Mitevski, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska
- short film THE WAKE by Timur Makarević, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Amra Baksic Camo
- short animation MAN STILL GOES TO THE MOON by Dragan Rokvić, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Amra Baksic Camo
REGIONAL PREMIERES – FEATURE
DELTA by Kornel Mundruczo, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
REGIONAL PREMIERES - DOCUMENTARY
- CORRIDOR #8, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel
- PATRIA MIA, NOMAD DIRECTION by Duška Zagorac, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Amra Baksic Camo
FROM CANNES TO SARAJEVO
BLIND LOVES by Juraj Lehotský, sales: EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger
SARAJEVO CITY OF FILM PROJECTS
- SEE YOU IN SARAJEVO by Vanja Sviličić, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisha Juricic
- SHOPPING by Alen Drljević, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Emöke Vagasi

CINELINK
EAVE is delighted to announce the continuation of our partnership with the prestigious CineLink Co-production Market. CineLink has selected 12 new projects from countries of Southeast Europe. For the first time CineLink is presenting Austrian project announcing open call for Austria next year. In addition, CineLink+ offers a selection of 3 projects that by their quality and author's strength will be presented at CineLink, but due to pre-production phase being well underway did not fit into the workshop frame.

One of the producers attending CineLink will be granted a scholarship for the EAVE 2009 workshops offered by Filmfonds Wien, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and MFG-Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg.

The EAVE producers attending CineLink 2008 in the framework of our partnership are:
Helena Danielsson (SE), Ebba Sinzinger  (AT), Paul-Boris Lobadowsky (F), Raymond van der Kaaij (NL), Reinier Selen (NL), Kaarle Aho (FI), Jean des Forêts (F), Sabine Holtgreve (D), Nicole Gerhards (D), Hans Eddy Schreiber (D), Morgan Bushe (IRL), Peter Engelmayr (D), Fiona Campell (UK), Jozko Rutar  (SI).

The Romanian project OUTSKIRTS by Cristian Mungiu and Ioana Uricaru, produced by Saga Film (delegate producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac) has been selected for CineLink.

The CineLink WORK IN PROGRESS section will furthermore show EAVE 2007 project THE BLACKS, produced by EAVE graduate Ankica Juric Tilic as well as NOBODY CAN SEE YOU BUT YOU, director Matija Klukovic, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Irena Markovic.


VENICE FILM FESTIVAL (August 27-September 6: www.labiennale.org)

OFFICIAL COMPETITION
- TEZA by Haile Gerima, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril et EAVE 2000 graduate Marie-Michèle Cattelain
- L’AUTRE by Patrick Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
CRITICS WEEK
- NIGHT GUARDS by Namik Kabil, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Amra Baksic-Camo
VENICE DAYS
- THE VISITOR by Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Aleksi Bardy
- NOWHERE MAN by Patrice Toye, co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper, EAVE 1999 graduate Donato Rotunno

OTHER FESTIVALS

Marcel Wehn’s documentary ONE WHO SET FORTH - WIM WENDERS' EARLY YEARS has been selected for the Monterrey International Film Festival, Mexico (August 15-23). The film has been produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik (Indifilm, D).
www.indifilm.de / www.monterreyfilmfestival.com

ABSURDISTAN, directed and produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer, has been selected at the following festivals this month: Alpinale Filmfestival, Nenzing (Austria: www.alpinale.net), Espoo (Finland: www.espoocine.fi) and Montreal Film Festival (Canada: www.ffm-montreal.org)
www.absurdistan-derfilm.de

AWARDS

KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
- Danish director Henrik Ruben Genz received the Crystal Globe for Best Feature Film and a cash prize of $30,000 for his film TERRIBLY HAPPY, produced by EAVE 1993 graduate Thomas Gammeltoft (Fine & Mellow Productions, DK) at the gala closing ceremony of the 43rd Karlovy Vary International Film Festival.
- Following the award at Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, at, Sergey Dvortsevoy’s comedy TULPAN has picked up the East of the West Award (10,000 euros) in Karlovy Vary as well as the „Netpac Award“of the Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema. TULPAN has been co-produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer.
www.kviff.com

BRUSSELS EUROPEAN FILM FESTIVAL
- The Audience Award “Prix Canvas” for Best Film of the 6th European Film Festival in Brussels went to THE STRANGER IN ME by Emily Atef, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards (NiKo Film, D).
- The Audience Award “Prix Prime Telenet” for Best Film went to HEART OF FIRE by Luigi Falorni, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer (Aichholzer Film, AT).
www.fffb.be


Big success for KINO LIKA at the Croatian national awards: The film produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Juric Tilic (Kinorama, HR) picked up three of the 16 Golden Arena awards at the 55th Pula Film Festival, including best supporting actress, best debutant actress and best make-up.
www.kinorama.hr

ELDORADO by Bouli Lanners, produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Versus, BE) picked up the Prix FIPRESCI de la Fédération internationale de la Critique in addition to the Prix Regards jeunes (Cannes 2008), Prix du label Europa Cinemas (Cannes 2008).
The film has also received a special mention at the 44th Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema in Pasaro, Italy. In theatres, ELDORADO has passed 100,000 tickets in France after 5 weeks (on more than 70 prints).  Around 35,000 persons went to see it yet in Belgium where the film is still playing in around 10 cinemas after 8 weeks.
www.versusproduction.be

Lance Daly’s KISSES, which premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh, was named Best Irish Feature. The film, produced by Fastnet Films (EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher and EAVE 2008 participant Morgan Bushe), follows the story of two youths, Dylan and Kylie, who run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com

The Best Short Film Award at the second Vukovar Film Festival of Danube Countries went to Radu Jude of Romania for Dimineata (“In the Morning”), produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon (HI Film, RO).
www.hifilm.ro


WHERE TO MEET EAVE IN AUGUST

EAVE Chief Executive Alan Fountain will be attending the Sarajevo Film Festival from August 18-24.

EAVE Deputy Chief Executive Tina Trapp will be at the Locarno Film Festival from August 9-13. 


AUGUST SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS

STARS OF TOMORROW – EAVE GRADUATE VIRGINIA GILBERT
IFTA nominated director and EAVE 2005 graduate Virginia Gilbert (Hesitation, Striapacha) has been named by Screen International as one of the UK Stars of Tomorrow 2008.
The Irish based director joined a line-up of 20 up and coming filmmakers and actors on the Screen International list. Gilbert’s IFTA nominated directorial debut, short film HESITATION, received a BAFTA nomination, was named Best Short Film at the Galway Film Fleadh 2007 and scooped the Gold Hugo award at this year’s Chicago Film Festival 2008. She went on to direct three part series Striapacha for TG4, which traced the history of prostitution in Ireland.
Gilbert’s latest project, RTÉ / Galway Film Centre funded short MEA CULPA, is currently in post-production at Windmill Lane. The short, produced by Blinder Films, is a study in jealousy and stars Emma Bolger and Fiona O’Shaugnessy. MEA CULPA was shot by DOP Tim Fleming (ONCE).
Gilbert is currently developing a project called NOW, LOVE with EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney from Element Pictures and is in the early stages of developing a French feature project with HESITATION producer and EAVE 1995 graduate Julien Berlan.

EAVE COACHING FOR PRODUCERS IN DUBAI – CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
For the second time in a row, the Dubai International Film Festival and EAVE are offering a high quality professional development programme for film producers from Arab countries in December 2008. The ‘Professional Coaching for Producers’ workshop will take place from December 12 to 16 in Dubai. The Dubai Film Festival will pay participants’ travel and hotel costs. The admission fee is USD 100. The programme is aimed at producers who are already active in the industry and will have already produced, for example, short films, music videos or, perhaps, a low budget digital feature. The programme will be conducted in English.
Applicants should apply with a project they are in the process of developing since the programme will feature development of the projects through group and individual discussion. Projects can be fiction or documentary and there is no requirement about genre, type or length.
Applications can be received from: Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Palestine Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. The application deadline (by email) is October 1, 2008.
For further information please see www.eave.org/dubai08.html or contact plus@eave.org
Application forms can be obtained at www.eave.org


POSTPRODUCTION WITHOUT HASSLE – special discounts for EAVE producers
Minerva Film, in Denmark, offers complete packages for postproduction of documentaries and short or feature films with state of the art equipment, creativity and workflow.
Special introduction discounts are offered to all EAVE producers. Whether you are shooting your next project on a mobile phone or 35mm film, Minerva looks forward to hearing from you. Check out the website: www.minervafilm.dk  for details or contact post producer Camilla Dal camillad@minervafilm.dk or +45 35 82 11 33.


EAVE NEWSLETTER July 2008

IN DEVELOPMENT/PRE-PRODUCTION

Shooting on Radu Jude’s debut feature, the Romanian/Dutch co-production THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, which began on June 16 at the film’s main location, downtown Bucharest, is set to wrap on July 12. Jude made it big on the short film festival circuit with his Sundance Special Jury Award-winning THE TUBE WITH A HAT (2007), selected at over 50 festivals worldwide. For THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, he teams up again with EAVE 2007 graduate Ada Solomon’s HiFilm, the company behind his latter three shorts, including THE TUBE WITH A HAT. The Netherlands’ Circe Films (EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper) is co-producing the picture, while additional financers include the Romanian Film Fund, the Romanian National Television, HBO, the Hubert Bals Fund, Japanese television NHK and a Media Programme development grant. Financing was closed mid-May, 2008, for a total budget of €650,000.
www.hifilm.ro

Five new feature film projects from Lebanon, Brazil, Argentina, Turkey and Columbia have been selected by the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) from 110 projects submitted from a total of 36 countries for production funding totalling $315,770 (Euros 200,000). One of the projects supported is the co-production with the Berlin-based production house NiKo Film (EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards), which had Emily Atef's THE STRANGER IN ME in Cannes this year. Since its founding, the WCF has received 820 submissions from 67 countries and granted production or distribution funding to 47 projects so far.
www.berlinale.de/en/das_festival/world_cinema_fund/wcf_profil/index.html

Vlaams Audiovisual Fund following its June 2008 committee session is backing majority Walloon production THE INVADER by Nicolas Provost, the prodigious director of short films. This debut feature is centred on the protagonist of Provost’s previous title EXOTICORE (which won awards at numerous festivals). THE INVADER recounts the descent into hell of a man from Burkina-Faso who sinks into immigration limbo. Produced by Prime Time for Flanders and Versus Productions (EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart) on the French-speaking side, the film has also been allocated production funding from the Film & Audiovisual Centre of the French Community of Belgium.
Furthermore, EAVE 2008 project 82 DAYS IN APRIL produced by EAVE participant Ellen De Waele (Serendipity Films, B), which was also selected for Paris Project this month, has received development funding.
www.vaf.be

The Film and Audiovisual Centre of the French Community of Belgium granted funding to 25 projects, including nine features, at its first committee session in 2008. The second committee is backing a trio of second films. Delphine Lehericey will obtain a writing grant for her second feature following COMME A OSTENDE, INNOCENT CRIMINAL which Entre Chien et Loup (EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye & EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum) will produce.
Dorothée Van Den Berghe will shoot MY QUEEN KARO in Brussels this summer. Produced by Tarantula (B), Caviar Films (EAVE 2007 graduates Peter de Maegd and Daniel Lamberts, B) and IDTV (EAVE 2008 participant Céline Baggen, NL), the film recently obtained backing from Eurimages. The CCA is also backing Nicolas Provost’s debut feature THE INVADER, produced by Versus Productions (EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart) and co-produced by Prime Time on the Flemish side. Finally, Lucas Belvaux is turning his attention to one of the crimes that marked French society at the end of the 1970s – the kidnapping of Baron Empain. The director’s loyal partners Entre Chien et Loup (EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, B) and Agat Films (EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman, F) are producing the €6m RAPT!.
www.cfwb.be

German-Russian co-production BUDDHA’S LITTLE FINGER was granted 300,000 Euro by German regional fund Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg. The film is produced on the German side by EAVE 2004 graduate Karsten Stöter (Rohfilm, D) whose production SALAMANDRA has just been shown at the Directors’ Fortnight in Cannes.
www.rohfilm.de

I2I AUDIOVISUEL : RESULTS OF THE CALL 29/2007
1,393,184 euros have been granted to 31 projects in the framework of the first funding session for i2i Audiovisuel by the MEDIA Programme. Among the supported projects are seven projects produced by EAVE graduates:
- CONTACT HIGH, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and Austrian National Coordinator Erich Lackner
- A SIMPLER LIFE, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Fredrik Haraldson
- ELEVE LIBRE, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- BRIDE FLIGHT, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges 
- DON’T LOOK BACK, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges, EAVE 1994 graduate and group jeader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
- PANDORA’S BOX, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
- SALAMANDRA, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/index_en.htm

EURIMAGES
The European Council’s support fund for cinematic co-productions – announced in Strasbourg that €4.275m have been allocated for the co-production of 12 features, out of which 7 are produced by EAVE graduates:
- NA PUTU by Jasmila Zbanic (Bosnia-Herzegovina, Germany, Austria, Croatia), producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski
- RAPT by Lucas Belvaux (France, Belgium), producers: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman, EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum
- PUHA TONU KIUSAMINE by Veiko Ountuu (Estonia, Sweden, Finland), producers:
EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa, EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Aberg
- SIMON KONIANSKI by Micha Wald (Belgium, France, Canada), producers: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- WHORES GLORY by Michael Glawogger (Austria, Germany), producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and Austrian National Coordinator Erich Lackner
- LOW LIGHTS by Ignas Miskinis (Lituania, Allemagne), producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene
- BLACK BOX by Fabrice Genestal (France, Canada, Belgium), producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
http://www.coe.int/eurimages

SWEDISH FILM INSTITUTE
A $0.2m (Euros 0.1m) grant goes to Dome Karukoski's FORBIDDEN FRUIT, a Finnish-Swedish co-production from EAVE 2002 graduate and Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy (Helsinki Filmi) and Martin Persson-Anagram Production, about two 18-year-old girls in a small religious community. The institute will also contribute $0.2m (Euros 0.1m) for Norwegian director Margreth Olin's ANGEL, a Norwegian-Swedish-Finnish co-production, which will be realised by Thomas Robsahm for Speranza Film. Migma Film is Swedish co-producer (1995 graduate Anita Oxburgh).
www.sfi.se

EAVE 2005 graduate Silje Hopland Eik is currently in pre-production with VEGAS, a touching story about a friendship between three teenagers who meet at a community home. Gunnar Vikene wrote the screenplay and will also direct. The film is an emotional and brutal portrait of how teenagers struggle to find a home, love and acceptance in their lives. Gunnar Vikene is well known for his warm, strong and humorous stories
www.cinenord.no

FORGOTTEN SPACE by Allan Sekula and Noel Burch is currently in pre-production. The shooting is scheduled for October. The film is to be produced by DocEye Film (NL) in co-production with EAVE 2007 graduate Ebba Sinzinger (WILDart FILM, AT), producers: Joost Verhey, Frank van Reemst, Ebba Sinzinger and Vincent Lucassen. The project has been supported by EURIMAGES.
www.docuzone.at / www.wildartfilm.com

IN PRODUCTION

The shooting of EAVE 2006 project LOST PERSONS AREA has started on June 30 in Rotterdam. The film is directed by Caroline Strubbe and produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers (Minds Meet, B).
www.mindsmeet.be

EAVE graduate Vincent Kinnaird (Notasuchfilms, UK) will complete production on WEE BASTARDS?, a short Docu-drama and a hard-edged short form docudrama dealing with life on Belfast's mean Streets... Lockies and his teenage gang do 'whatever the fuck they want' on Belfast's streets, until a no-nonsence TV presenter gets in their way. The short film WEE BASTARDS? uses the characters from Notasuch Films feature length development project 'BELFAST STORY' (development supported by Northern Ireland Screen).WEE BASTARDS? can be previewed online from www.notasuch.com

IN POSTPRODUCTION

PRIMA PRIMAVERA, directed by Janos Edelenyi, co-produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Steve Bowden (Vita Nova Films, UK) is currently in postproduction. PRIMA PRIMAVERA is a UK/ Hungarian/Bulgarian and Dutch co-production between Vita Nova Films (UK), Eurofilm Studio (HU), Geopoly (BG) and EAVE 2003 graduate Arry Voorsmit (Riba Film, NL). The film is a road movie/love story stars Andor Lukats, Vesela Kasakova and Antonie Kamerling.
Vita Nova Films was founded by the two EAVE 1999 graduates Steve Bowden and Grant Keir after they had met at EAVE in 1999.
www.vitanovafilms.com

THE LAST STATION’s 40-day shoot came to an end last month at the MCA Studios of Leipzig. The biopic (adapted by Jay Parini from his eponymous novel) depicts Leo Tolstoy's family life through the eyes of his young secretary Valentin Boulgakov. The writer is played by Christopher Plummer and his wife Sofia by Helen Mirren, who gladly accepted after Meryl Streep's backed out. Shooting of the €13m film took place in several regions in Germany before settling in Leipzig. Producers Jens Meurer (EAVE 1995 graduate, from German company Egoli Tossel Film) and Chris Curling (from the UK's Zephyr Films), are glad with the final results, which they said were enriching and quite pleasant for the whole team. The film is expected to be released in Germany in early 2009 by Warner Bros.
www.egolitossell.com

CURRENTLY PLAYING

HIMMERLAND, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Henrik Underbjerg (Radiatorfilm, DK), has had its Danish premiere last month.
www.radiatorfilm.com

THE FORGOTTEN CIRCUS, the new film by Shelly Love has premiered on Thursday 26th June, 8.00pm at the Richmix in London. Devised and directed by Shelly Love, THE FORGOTTEN CIRCUS stars Gerard Bell and students from Circus Space. Mixing circus, physical theatre, dance and narrative with a hypnotic score from The Irrepressibles, the film creates a surreal world that floods the imagination and seeps under the skin.  THE FORGOTTEN CIRCUS is supported by Circus Space and Arts Council England and produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Anne Beresford (MJW Productions, UK).
www.mjwproductions.com

THE OLD ROAD TO DUBLIN, an hour long comedy documentary and multi-media experience produced by EAVE graduate Vincent Kinnaird (Notasuchfilms, UK) has just premiered in the UK. It is a a documentary film and online comedy documentary about social attitudes, improved infrastructure, the new Ireland, our cultural heritage and drink! The film was supported by TRC media (Glasgow) Cross-creative scheme and the first public screening took place on June 26.
www.theoldroadtodublin.com

EAVE 2005 project LA PALOMA, produced by Sigrid Faltin (White Pepper Filmgesellschaft, D) in co-production with French Seppia, has had its French premiere in Strasbourg on July 2.  First Hand Films (EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel) is handling international sales.
www.whitepepper.de

EMPTIES, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny was released in Belgium on July 2.
www.endorfilm.cz

PUFFBALL, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Paul Donovan, has its UK release on July 18.
www.grandpictures.ie

42PLUS, produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz, will hit German screens on July 24.
www.dor-film.at

FESTIVALS

BRUSSELS FILM FESTIVAL (June 28 – July 2)
OFFICIAL EUROPEAN COMPETITION
- BLACK ICE, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Leander Carell
- BLIND LOVES, sales: EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger (Autlook Filmsales)
- I AM FROM TITOV VELES, producers: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska, EAVE
2002 graduate Helge Albers, EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
- THE STRANGER IN ME, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards
BELGIAN TALENTS
- BEN X, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
- PRIVATE PROPERTY, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Donato Rotunno
- ULTRANOVA, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
CINEDECOUVERTES
- BETTER THINGS, producer: 2002 EAVE graduate Samm Haillay, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, associate producer: EAVE 2002 graduate David Smith
- LA SANGRE BROTA by Pablo Fendrik, co-producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Claire Lajoumard and EAVE 2007 graduate Hans Eddy Schreiber’s company Neue Cameo Film (producer: Ole Landsjöaasen)
http://www.fffb.be

FID MARSEILLE (July 2-7)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
- EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA by José Luis Torres Leiva (Chile), producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
www.fidmarseille.org

KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (July 4-12)
OFFICIAL COMPETITION
TERRIBLY HAPPY, producer: EAVE 1993 graduate Thomas Gammeltoft
DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION
- BLIND LOVES, sales: EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger (Autlook Filmsales)
- BYE BYE SHANGHAI, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny
EAST OF THE WEST COMPETITION
- THE COLLECTRESS, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene
- I WAS HERE, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate and Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
EAST OF THE WEST OUT OF COMPETITION
ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE ALPS, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar
OPEN EYES
- CLOUD 9, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
- DELTA, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
HORIZONS
- AUTUMN BALL, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
ANOTHER VIEW
- ABSURDISTAN, director/producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer
- DEAD HAND KNOCKING, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Albert Sagales
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-producers: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj
Nikitin
- WHO IS AFRAID OF KATHY ACKER, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Markus Fischer
- THE WORLD IS BIG AND SALVATION LURKS AROUND THE CORNER, co-producer: EAVE group leader Danijel Hocevar
VARIETY CRITICS CHOICE
- ACCORDING TO PLAN, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Susann Schimk
- DUNYA & DESIE, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit
FOCUS ON THE NETHERLANDS
- GUERNSEY, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper, co-producer: EAVE
2002 graduate Rudolf Mestdagh
- NADINE, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Ellen De Waele
- OFF SCREEN, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Reinier Selen
www.kviff.com

GALWAY FILM FLEADH (July 8-13)
WORLD CINEMA
- JVCD, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges
- LEMON TREE, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause’s company Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina Brokemper)
- LEO, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Anna Anthony
- THE TRAP, co-producer: EAVE 1992 graduate Jörg Rothe
- GONE FOR A DANCE, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson
NEW IRISH CINEMA
- KISSES, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Macdara Kelleher
FEATURE DOCUMENTARY
- SEAVIEW, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Nicky Gogan
- CREATIVE CHAOS: ROUND ONE, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jeremiah Cullinane
www.galwayfilmfleadh.com

JERUSALEM INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (July 10-19)
PANORAMA:
- EMPTIES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny
- I AM FROM TITOV VELES, producers: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska, EAVE
2002 graduate Helge Albers, EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
SARAJEVO FILM FESTIVAL PRESENTS
- INTERROGATION, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Amra Baksic-Camo
NEW DIRECTORS
- AUTUMN BALL, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
- BEN X, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
- EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA by José Luis Torres Leiva (Chile), producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
- TULPAN, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
CHILDREN IN THE FESTIVAL
- WHERE IS WINKY'S HORSE?, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
www.jff.org.il

PULA FILM FESTIVAL (July 19-26)
NATIONAL COMPETITION
- KINO LIKA, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juric Tilic
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
- EMPTIES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny
www.pulafilmfestival.hr

OTHER FESTIVALS
FAIRYTALE OF KATHMANDU, directed by Neasa Ni Chianain, and produced by EAVE 1999 graduate David Rane has been selected for Durban International Film Festival this month and has won the 2nd prize in the International Documentary Competition at Documenta Madrid last month. The documentary has had its North American premiere in the Documentary Competition at the Seattle International Film Festival, and its UK premiere in the Documentary Competition at Edinburgh.
http://vinegarhill.com/fairytale/

ONE WHO SET FORTH - WIM WENDERS' EARLY YEARS, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik as shown at the Digital Barcelona Film Festival(DiBa) in Spain last month.
http://www.dibafestival.com/index.php

MYSTERY OF THE WOLF (producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Leila Lyytikäinen) has been invited to the Lights Out - Film Festival for Young Audiences in Ireland in this month.
www.lightsout.ie

NOMINATIONS

Three films from the official selection published last week will be competing for this year's European Parliament cinema Prize - the LUX Prize 2008: DELTA by Kornél Mundruczó (produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi); LORNA’S SILENCE by Jean-Pierre Dardenne et Luc Dardenne and CITIZEN HAVEL by Miroslav Janek et Pavel Koutecký.
Inaugurated in 2007, the LUX (light) Prize supports the distribution of European films in the European Union. It will be used to sub-title the winning film in the Union's 23 official languages and to produce one copy per Member State in 35 mm format. The value of the LUX Prize is estimated at €87,000. The official selection is drawn up by a 17-strong panel drawn from the highest level of the cinema profession: producers, distributors, cinema operators, festival directors, critics, etc. The winner will be chosen by Members of the European Parliament, after the competing films are shown from 15 September to 16 October. The LUX prize will be awarded on 22 October. In 2007, it went to the film THE EDGE OF HEAVEN by Fatih Akin.
Contact: epfilmprizelux@europarl.europa.eu

AWARDS

At the Italian Golden Globes, IRINA PALM was awarded Best European Film. IRINA PALM was produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye and co-produced by EAVE 1992 graduate & EAVE president Jani Thiltges and EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson. The film starring Marianne Faithfull began its journey shooting in London December 05, was a huge hit at Berlin 07 and has since taken over 1m admissions in Europe alone. It went into the TOP TEN grossing European Films of last year and is currently playing in the UK.
www.entrechienetloup.be

NACHT VOR AUGEN by Brigitte Bertele, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (noirfilm, D) was awarded the NDR Bernhard Wicki prize for best first or second feature at the 19th International Filmfests Emden in Germany. The film was supported by German regional fund MFG-Baden Württemberg.
www.noirfilm.de

Short film NEW BOY by Steph Green, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Tamara Anghie  received the Special Jury Award at the Seattle International Film Festival.  It has now won over 12 awards including Tribeca, the IFTA and Special Mention in Berlin.  It is currently part of the WorldWide Shorts Film Festival in Toronto and will be showing at the Melbourne International Film Festival in July, at the Kodomotachino Kinder Film Festival in Tokyo, the Seoul Film Festival, the Tehran Film Festival and many more.
www.zanzibarfilms.net

AWAITING FOR MEN by Katy Lena Ndiaye, produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Aurélien
Bodinaux (Neon Rouge, B), has been awarded a couple new awards: The upcoming talent award at the Afrique Taille XL Festival in Brussels-Belgium and du best documentary award at the Real Life Documentary Festival in Accra/Ghana.
MIEUX VAUT MAL VIVRE QUE MOURIR by Justine Bitagoye and Gaudiose Nininahazwehas, also produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Aurélien Bodinaux received a special mention at the TV Festival in Monte Carlo.
www.neonrouge.com

The Young German Cinema Awards of the Filmfest Munich went to Susanne Wolff for THE STRANGER IN ME produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards (NiKo Film, D).
www.nikofilm.de

Stefan Arsenijevic’s Berlin entry and best director winner at Cottbus, Sofia and Wiesbaden, LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES has won the best film award worth $8,000 at the first Novi Sad festival International Festival of Film and New Media in Novi Sad, Serbia (Jun 14-21). The film was produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic on co-production with EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin.
www.filmskifestivalsrbije.org

The 44th Pesaro Film Festival ended with a Special Mention for ELDORADO by Belgian director Bouli Lanners, winner of the Label Europa Cinemas in the latest Directors’ Fortnight, produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart. The jury called it “an edgy, decalée comedy, full of emotion and sobriety, feature a group of formidable actors”.
www.pesarofilmfest.it

JULY SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS

ROBERTO OLLA TO HEAD EURIMAGES
EAVE congratulates legal expert Roberto Olla to his appointment by the Council of Europe as Executive Secretary of Eurimages as from 1st July 2008!
Roberto has a law degree with a specialisation in public law and a Ph.D in Community law with a thesis in European audiovisual and media law. An Italian national, he has been a researcher in media law at the European University Institute of Florence and worked for several years for the MEDIA Programme of the European Commission. Before joining the Council of Europe, Roberto had been legal adviser for three years in the European Commission in Brussels. Roberto Olla joined the Eurimages Secretariat in January 2002.
www.coe.int

This month on CINEUROPA (www.cineuropa.org):
The Making Of ROBBER GIRLS, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Tunje Berns, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges.
http://www.cineuropa.org/making.aspx?lang=en&documentID=2112
Interview: Pepe Danquart for TO THE LIMIT, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & Austrian national coordinator Erich Lackner
http://www.cineuropa.org/interview.aspx?lang=en&documentID=84799

HELP – SPARE CAMERA AND COMPUTER NEEDED
For the shooting of a feature film on women traffic in Africa, Wide Mind Productions in Cameroun urgently need: an HDV camera is (last year’s model or other), a computer with an editing programme. EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller would pay transportation. Please contact eave@eave.org if you want to help.

EAVE – Workshop 2 in Ireland

After a successful first workshop in Luxembourg, the second EAVE Workshop 2008 is coming up and will deal with issues on financing, co-producing, packaging, negotiation and legal matters. It will take place in Drogheda from June 15-23  with the support of FAS Screen Training Ireland with the Louth Newry & Mourne Film Commission.

51 participants and 16 scriptwriters from 27 countries as well as various experts, observers and other industry professionals will get together during one intense week of project development, training and networking at the d hotel in Drogheda.

35 of the participating producers will bring their projects which they will further develop during that week under the guidance of EAVE’s pedagogical team and experts during individual meetings and in group work sessions. 16 producers will also bring their scriptwriters along to work intensively on the projects together. EAVE is particularly pleased to welcome sales agent and EAVE 2004 graduate Judith Toth (NonStop Sales, S) as marketing expert to this second workshop.

During case studies, invited film makers will deliver insight into their experiences of (co-) producing: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic (Art & Popcorn, Serbia) will talk about the development, production and distribution process of Stefan Arsenijević’s LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES (Berlinale Panorama 2008, Best Director Award goEast 2008 and Sofia 2008), co-produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder and EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin.
EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Aberg (Atmo, S) will deliver a case study on documentary GITMO by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh (competition IDFA 2005), co-produced by Zentropa Ent. (DK).

Another subject will be New Technologies: Pierre-Alexandre Labelle (F) will host a session about European VoD platforms and the latest developments, and Liz Rosenthal (Earthly Delights Films, UK) and will share her expertise about digital distribution and finding an audience on the internet. 

New on the schedule is a session about the processes, strategies and costs of audiovisual post-production by German top expert Udo Happel (post-production coordinator for directors such as Andreas Dresen, Romuald Karmakar, Ben Sombogaart, and many others).

During a panel presentation, Simon Perry (Irish Film Board), EAVE 1989 graduate Jane Gogan (RTE), Andrew Reid (Northern Ireland Film and Television Commission) and Brian Furey (BCI) will give an overview of the Irish funding schemes and co-production opportunities.

There will be special Mini-EAVE for Irish professionals featuring a session on co-production in Europe with David Collins and EAVE group leaders Danny Krausz and Patrick Sobelman. David Collins (Samson Films, IRL) will also hold a case-study of multi-award winning Dublin-shot comedy ONCE (Oscar 2008 for Best Original Song), produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland.
For further details of the Mini-EAVE, please log onto www.screentrainingireland.ie

Since its beginnings in 1988, 65 Irish producers have been trained in EAVE so far and this year, EAVE is proud to have 4 Irish producers participating at the 2008 workshops. Workshop 2 2008 is the second workshop in EAVE's history taking place in Ireland.

EAVE expresses special gratitude for the support of Workshop 2 to:
FÁS Screen Training Ireland; Louth, Newry & Mourne Film Commission, Screen Producers Ireland, MEDIA Desk Ireland, Media Antenna Galway, the d hotel, the Irish Film Board, Borderline Productions, Zanzibar Films, Ardmore Sound, Ardmore Studios, Panavision, Tangerine, Scholars Restaurant and Bru.

EAVE NEWS – FESTIVALS & MARKETS in JUNE 2008 –
Save the date: Call for Entries for the Dubai Film Connection!

SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (May 22-June 15)

Contemporary World Cinema
- BEN X, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
- GARAGE, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Edward Guiney
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-prod.: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin
Documentary Competition
- FAIRYTALE OF KATHMANDU, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate David Rane
Alternate Cinema
- DUST, producers: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert, EAVE 1990 graduate Werner
Schweizer
Emerging Masters
- HEAD-ON, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel
Future Wave
- 32 A, producers: EAVE 2003 graduate Tommy Weir (IRL), EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad (D), distributor: EAVE 2003 graduate Andreas Rothbauer (BetaCinema, D)
www.siff.net   
TRANSILVANIA INT. FILM FESTIVAL (May 30-June 8 Cluj, June 11-15 Sibiu)

Competition
- THE SKY, THE EARTH AND THE RAIN, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
 - AUTUMN BALL, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
Romanian Days
- COLD WAVES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian national coordinator Ada Solomon, sales: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges
Real Time
- RUSSIAN ARC, producers: EAVE 1995 graduate Andrey Deryabin, EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer, EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
www.tiff.ro

BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (MAY 30-JUNE 8)
- OUT OF BOUNDS, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli
- THE CLASS, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate & Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos
www.wbff.org

FESTIVAL OF GERMAN FILMS MANNHEIM-HEIDELBERG (June 5-15)
- EAVE 2005 project LA PALOMA, producer: EAVE graduate Sigrid Faltin
- MEIN FREUND AUS FARO, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel
- WEISSE LILIEN, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder
http://www.mannheim-filmfestival.com/en/Festival_des_deutschen_Films/

SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (June 14-22)

Panorama
- COLORADO AVENUE, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Leila Lyytikäinen
Sports
- AM LIMIT, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & Austrian national coordinator Erich Lackner
Focus Germany
- COUNTERPARTS, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm (p: Bettina Brokemper)
www.siff.com

EDINGBURGH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (June 18 – 29)

British Gala
- BETTER THINGS, producer: 2002 EAVE graduate Samm Haillay, co-producer: 2002 EAVE graduate Helge Albers, associate producer: EAVE 2002 graduate David Smith
Documentary Competition
- FAIRYTALE OF KATHMANDU, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate David Rane
Director’s Showcase
- LEMON TREE, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina Brokemper)
Rosebud
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-prod.: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin
Document
- TO SEE IF I’M SMILING, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel
www.edfilmfest.org.uk

MUNICH FILM FEST (June 20-28)

Kinderfilmfest
- WHERE IS WINKY’S HORSE, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
www.filmfest-muenchen.de
International Programme
- CHAOTIC ANA, executive producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Simon de Santiago
- SMALL GODS, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Daniel Lamberts
- STAGES, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit
New German Cinema
- BACK TO AFRICA, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter Rommel
- DAS FREMDE IN MIR, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards
- CLOUD 9, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter Rommel
Visiones Latinas
- EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter Rommel
www.filmfest-muenchen.de

PARIS PROJECT (July 2-4)

EAVE is proud to be again partner of this year's edition of PARIS PROJECT (July 2-4). PARIS PROJECT is the co-production platform of the PARIS CINEMA Festival and brings together thirteen selected international projects in development that are looking for financial partners in France.
Two of the projects selected for the PARIS PROJECT MEETINGS are EAVE projects:
- 82 DAYS IN APRIL by Bart Van den Bempt, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Ellen De Waele (Serendipity Films, BE)
- LINDA’S WATER by Daniel Hiquet, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Frédéric Chanteux (NewArt Productions, BE)
We are also delighted to announce that Kamal Aljafari – graduate of the EAVE workshop in Dubai 2007 - and his project PASSERBY have been selected for PARIS PROJECT.
Furthermore, EAVE 2008 participant Melanie Andernach (Made In Germany Filmproduktion, D) will participate at the PARIS PROJECT WORKSHOPS.
http://www.pariscinema.org/fr/professionnels/parisprojects08.htmlPHPSESSID=08qq27aduad7i44cfi0l3i2kt1#ancre1

DUBAI FILM CONNECTION CO-PRODUCTION MARKET – CALL FOR ENTRIES
In 2007, Dubai International Film Festival proudly launched a co-production market – the Dubai Film Connection (DFC) – as part of its ongoing commitment to raising the visibility of Arab filmmakers and stimulating the growth of production emanating from the Arab World.
15 feature and documentary projects from Arab filmmakers from around the world were selected and presented to an invited guest list of 80 international industry professionals.
The second edition of DFC will take place from December 13-17, 2008. The Dubai International Film Festival will present 3 awards of $25,000 to projects selected by an international jury. The producers of the 3 winning projects will be awarded registration for the prestigious Producers Network at the Cannes Film Festival 2009. ARTE will present the “International Relations ARTE Prize” of €6,000 to a filmmaker for exceptional originality, writing style and motivation.
The DFC is open for documentary and feature film projects from directors of Arab nationality or origin (Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Palestinian Territories, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, United Arab Emirates) with a producer attached. The deadline for project submissions online is August 4, 2008.
Further information & the application form on http://www.dubaifilmfest.com

OTHER FESTIVALS

HOLD ME directed by EAVE 1989 graduate Lucia Rikaki has been selected for competition at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival (June 25-29).
www.lagreekfilmfestival.org

Two documentaries produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Kurt Salo (Salo Films AS, NO) have been presented at the 2008 St. Petersburg Maritime Film Festival: BREAKING THE ICE ARCTIC STYLE and CATCH & DENIAL. CATCH & DENIAL has been screened in 187 countries and awarded several times.

Documentary ONE WHO SET FORTH - WIM WENDERS' EARLY YEARS, produced by EAVE 2004
graduate Arek Gielnik, has been selected at the Digital Barcelona Film Festival(DiBa), Spain.
http://www.dibafestival.com/index.php 

ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE ALPS by Janez Burger, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar (STARAGARA , SI) has been selected at the Festroia International Film Festival, Setubal, Portugal (June 6-15).
www.nasoncnistranialp.com / www.staragara.com



EAVE NEWSLETTER June 2008 –
10 Awards in Cannes for EAVE producers

IN DEVELOPMENT/PRE-PRODUCTION

At the latest MEDIA Development funding session, some 20 EAVE producers and their projects or companies were granted development funding:
- WEDDING DIARIES, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Triona Campbell: 60,000 €
- 4 LIFE RECORDS, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nuno Bernardo: 60,000 €
- THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa: 25,000 €
- SARAJEVO RICOCHET, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Tore Buvarp: 25,000 €
- RIVERSIDE OF FREEDOM, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Guna Stahovska: 49,995 €
- GRANDPA’S SECRETS, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny: 21,000 €
- BROWNIAN MOVEMENT, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper: 47,000 €
- PRIVATE APOCALYPSE, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Franco Bocca Gelsi: 60,000 €
- JUSQU’A LA LUNE ET PARTOUT SUR LA TERRE, producers: EAVE team member Christophe Bruncher, EAVE 2007 graduate Nicolas Lesoult: 45,000 €
- LIFE’S A BATTLE, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik: 20,000 €
- KURDISH LOVE, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan: 35,000 €
- EUROPE’S BIG WALK, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney: 46,497 €
- OPERATION CASABLANCA, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Dan Wechsler: 30,000 €
- DILI INCIDENT, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Triona Campbell: 50,000 €
- THE SHEIK’S FOLLOWERS, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Stavros Papageorghiou: 25,000 €
- BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH, producer: EAVE 1999 graduates Steve Bowden and Grant Keir: 22.947 € 
- PERFUMES OF THE MIDDLE EAST, producer: EAVE 1993 graduate Olga Abazoglou: 22,500€
Slate funding went to EAVE 1999 graduate Marianne Dumoulin and her French company
JBA Productions (160,000 €), EAVE 1991 graduate and Swedish National Coordinator Peter Kropenin and company HOB AB (135,000 €) and EAVE 2004 graduate Nadège Hasson from France and her company Temps Noir (132.200 €).
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/index_en.htm

In its latest round of development support, EURIMAGES has awarded funding to three projects produced by EAVE producers:
- BON APPETIT by David Pinillos (ES,DE,CH): 350.000 Euro, EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer (Egoli Tossel Film, D)
- MY QUEEN KARO by Dorothée van den Berghe (BE,NL) 300.000 Euro, EAVE 2007 graduates Peter De Maegd and Daniel Lamberts (Caviar Films, B), EAVE 2008 participant Celine Baggen (IDTV, NL)
- INTO ETERNITY by Michael Madsen (DK,FI,IT,SE) 95.000 Euro, EAVE group leader Lise Lense-Møller (Magic Hour Films, DK), EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Aberg (Atmo Films, SE)
http://www.coe.int/eurimages

MFG Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg has granted production support to 2 projects developed by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski’s company Noirfilm: 45.000,- Euro for TV documentary LANDSCHAFTSGESCHICHTEN by Marcus Welsch, and 250.000,- Euro to feature film DER FLUR by Didi Danquart.
www.mfg.de / www.noirfilm.de

German national fund FFA has granted 100.000 euro production support to DAVID WANTS TO FLY by David Sieveking, produced by EAVE 1989 graduate Carl-Ludwig Rettinger (Lichtblick, D).
www.ffa.de / www.lichtblick-film.de

During its 30th funding session, Wallimage has granted support to 2 projects produced by EAVE producers: BLACK JACK, a fantastic thriller by Giordano Gederlini, produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Versus Productions, B) in co-production with Noodles Productions (F)  and FRAGMENTS OF GRACE by EAVE 1995 graduate Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert (ma.ja.de, D), co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye (Entre Chien et Loup, B), EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit (Lemming Film, NL) and Bo Films.
www.wallimage.be / www.fragmentsofgrace.com

Blind Spot Pictures CEO Tero Kaukomaa’s Finnish sci-fi spoof IRON SKY (director Timo Vuorensola) will be co-produced by German producer and EAVE 1998 graduate Olivier Damian of 27 Films Production (RUSSIAN ARK) and released in Poland by Kino Świat. They are planning to shoot the majority of the film in Germany. The dark sci-fi comedy, currently in pre-production, will be shot in English for an estimated €3.2m. The script is written by Johanna Sinisalo, Finland’s most famous science fiction writer. Vuorensola has applied his successful “direct link to Internet user” method to raise awareness on IRON SKY, using his WRECK A MOVIE PLATFORM to create a film community and exchange ideas on the project. For Kaukomaa, this initiative is the way of the future in terms of promotion and even production.
www.wreckamovie.com

OCCI VERSUS THE WORLD, feature film, written and to be directed by Conor McDermottroe, is currently in pre-production. The film is a co-production between EAVE 2000 graduate Tom Maguire, EAVE 1998 graduate Edwina Forkin (Zanzibar Films, IRL), and Hermann Florin (Florin Film, D). Production starts in July. The film is supported by the Irish Film Board, Kinowelt, Vertigo, ZDF and Eurimages and the Irish 481 Tax scheme.
www.zanzibarfilms.net

The acclaimed Swedish television filmmaker Mikael Marcimain is making the leap to feature film with PARTISANS to be produced by Atmo. Atmo’s CEO EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Åberg was in Cannes with the €3m project looking for potential co-financiers. Inspired by true events that took place in Sweden in the turbulent 1970s, PARTISANS deals with political awakening, and group pressure. It focuses on Dieter, a young German supporter of the June 2nd movement - the second most prominent left-wing German urban guerrilla group of the 1970s - who persuades his young and influential Swedish girlfriend to join him in his fight against West-Germany's government. The film will be shot in a fast-pace by the experienced Marcimain, will be intercut with documentary archives. The project will be produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Helene Lindholm (who worked with Marcimain on his successful TV drama THE LASER MAN), with Åberg as executive producer. Shooting is set to start in the spring 2009. Atmo's other projects include Erik Gandini's new documentary ITALY, YEAR ZERO and Tarik Saleh's animated feature film for adults METROPIA. Both films supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond should be ready in time for Berlin 2009.
www.atmo.se

Finland's MRP Matila Röhr Productions (EAVE 2008 participant Mikko Tenhunen) and the UK's Film and Music Entertainment (F&ME) announced in Cannes a three picture deal over the next two years, following their successful production collaboration on the animated Rolli feature film QUEST FOR A HEART. Leading off the slate is PRIEST OF EVIL, an English language thriller directed by Anders Engström from a screenplay by Leo Viirret. The film features the weary cop Timo Harjunpaa of the Helsinki Violent Crimes Unit, created by novelist Matti Joensuu. This adaptation is intended as the template for a series of 13 films for television using the same protagonist. The €4m project will go into production by the end of 2008. The psychological thriller THE DEBT will be directed by Joona Tena (EAVE 2004 project FC VENUS) based on his own script co-written with producer Mikko Tenhunen and Pekka Lehtosaari. The €2M supernatural thriller set to start shooting in the British Isles in early 2009. Third on the list is the documentary film UNDERWATER ICELAND 3D, produced by Marko Röhr. The project will be filmed over a two year period in and around the coastal waters of Iceland. All post-production for the €2.2m film will be handled by in the UK through F&ME. F&ME's Mike Downey and Sam Taylor will be co-producing all the three titles.
www.matilarohr.com

Spanish outfit Morena Films will shoot two comedies later this year, BON APPETIT and NEON FLESH. David Pinillos' $4.7m debut film BON APPETIT, about three young cooks who share their passion for cooking in a Swiss avant garde restaurant, stars two exciting young actors, Unax Ugalde, from competition title CHE and Nora Tschirner. The film is structured as a co-production between Morena Films and Orio Produkzioak from Spain, Egoli Tossell (EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer) in Germany and Zodiac Pictures from Switzerland. Beta Cinema is selling internationally (EAVE 2003 graduate Andreas Rothbauer). Shooting will take place over 8 weeks from October in Northern Spain, Switzerland and Germany.
Paco Cabezas' $5.6m film NEON FLESH, about a young entrepreneur who tries to put together a brothel in one month will shoot in November for 10 weeks. Cabezas' second feature after cult horror THE APPEARED, which is to be released by IFC in the US, is a co-production between Jaleo Films, De Palacio, Vaca Films and Oberon Cinematografica in Spain, Mandarin Films in France, and Sweden's Hepp Films (EAVE 2002 graduate Helena Danielsson) and Film I Vast.
www.morenafilms.com

IN PRODUCTION

After their collaboration on MAGONIA, Dutch director Ineke Smits again teams up with novelist Arthur Japin for her latest venture THE AVIATRIX OF KAZBEK which started filming end of May. The film also stars Georgian actors Zura Zhghenti and Kakha Kintsurashvili, German actor Peter Lohmeyer (OBABA) and Romanian actress Anamaria Marinca (4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS). San Fu Maltha of Fu Works and Els Vandevorst of Isabella Films produce the feature, in co-production with EAVE 2006 graduate Denis Vaslin of Rotterdam-based Volya Films and EAVE 2008 participant Ellen de Waele of Belgian outfit Serendipity. The Dutch Film Fund, the Rotterdam Film Fund, the CoBO Fund, NPS TV and the VAF (Flemish Audiovisual Fund) are all involved in the financing of the film that will reach Dutch theatres in 2009, courtesy of distributor BFD.
www.volyafilms.com

Shooting kicked off on June 2 on EAVE 2007 project AU VOLEUR, the debut narrative feature by Sarah Petit, a director who first came to attention with her documentaries (NAPOLI 90, LES LIMBES) before making the successful transition to fiction with her medium-length films L'ARPENTEUR and LE LAC ET LA RIVIÈRE.
AU VOLEUR – whose shoot will last 39 days – was developed at EAVE 2007 and stars Guillaume Depardieu and Florence Loiret-Caille. Produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Michel Klein and Laetitia Fèvre for Les Films Hatari, AU VOLEUR has a budget of around €1.7m. This includes an advance on receipts from the CNC, €342,000 in backing from the Ile-de-France region, financial support from the Alsace region and pre-sales from Canal + and Ciné Cinéma. The film also received a writing grant from the Centre region and the Seine St Denis regional council. The film will be released by Shellac.
www.lesfilmshatari.com

The multi-talented French actress Isild Le Besco has joined Paul Dano and Brian Cox on the set of Dagur Kari’s THE GOOD HEART, currently shooting in New York. THE GOOD HEART, produced by Skuli Fr Malmquist and Thor S Sigurjonsson for Zik Zak Productions, in co-production with EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman’s company Ex Nihilo (F), US company Forensic Films and Denmark’s Nimbus Film with support from the Danish Film Institute, the Icelandic Film Centre, and the Nordisk Film & TV Fond. International sales are handled by Wild bunch.
www.zikzak.is

Artan Minarolli’s ALIVE is currently shooting in Albania. The film is produced by EAVE 20007 graduate Ebba Sinzinger (WildART, AT) and co-produced by Agat Films (F); production coordinator is EAVE 2007 graduate Oliver Röpke.
www.wildartfilm.com

IN POSTPRODUCTION

UN ANGE PASSE by Pierre Vinour has finished shooting in Picardy on June 2 and is currently in postproduction. The film produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Aurélie Bordier (Les Enragés, F) had been supported by the Picardy region and ARTE prebuy.
Pierre’s previous short, L’ENFANT BORNE by Pascal Mieszala and Pierre Vinour, also produced by Aurélie Bordier, had been presented at the Short Film Corner of the Cannes Film Festival.
www.lesenrages.com

Andy Bausch’s latest documentary INTERVIEW about the famous Luxembourg film actor and 50-year-old screen veteran Thierry Van Werveke is currently in post-production. Luxembourg director Bausch has collaborated with Van Werveke numerous times, including on the 1988 cult feature TROUBLEMAKER, in which van Werveke made his feature debut as an actor after a long period of drug addiction and work in several short films, and the box-office hit LE CLUB DES CHOMEURS from 2001.
Van Werveke has also worked with directors such as Michael Haneke, Til Schweiger and local director Pol Cruchten. INTERVIEW is produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges (Paul Thiltges Distributions).
www.ptd.lu

Swiss director Carla Lia Monti has finished shooting her first feature film ROBBER GIRLS, a very loose adaptation of the Friedrich Schiller play The Robbers, which in turn inspired the Verdi opera I Masnadieri (The Bandits). The film, a co-production between Switzerland and Luxembourg, stars Swiss actresses Nina Buehlmann and Cynthia Coray as the sisters and 2007 Swiss Shooting Star Nils Althaus as the lover of Buehlmann’s character. The band of robber girls consists of Swiss actresses Sabine Timoteo, Céline Wenger and Mathis Künzler and Luxembourg actresses Myriam Muller and Sasha Ley, both former Shooting Stars as well. The film wrapped a two-month shoot in Switzerland and Luxembourg last week and should be ready for delivery by the end of the year. ROBBER GIRLS is produced by Samir for Dschoint Ventschr Filmproduktion (producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Tunje Berns) in co-production with EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges (Paul Thiltges Distributions, LUX - line producer: David Grumbach).
www.dschointventschr.ch

CURRENTLY PLAYING

Feature film SECRETS by Spartak Pecani, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Nehat Fehza (Concordia, Kosova) premiered on May 8 Tirana, Albania.
www.concordiapictures.com

Documentary JE VEUX TOUT DE LA VIE – LA LIBERTE SELON SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR by Pascale Fautrier et Pierre Seguin, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Anne-Marie Marsaguet (Saraband Films, F) premiered on May 28.

In collaboration with Iota Productions (EAVE 2007 graduate Isabelle Truc), BOZAR in Brussels is hosting “Belgian documentaries on show” from June 3-27, offering audiences the chance to discover five recent titles produced by Iota. From Cameroon to Liège, from Senegal to Brussels, these five films offer a tender but uncompromising vision of the world as it is. Among the documentaries presented is Jérôme Le Maire’s WHERE IS LOVE IN THE PALM GROVE?, which was nominated by the European Film Academy for the 2007 Arte European Documentary Award.
www.bozar.be

The documentary about Christof Wackernagel DER WEISSE MIT DEM SCHWARZBROT by Jonas Grosch, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Ulrike Zimmermann, is touring through German cinemas since June 3.
www.der-weisse-mit-dem-schwarzbrot.de

J.C.V.D. by Mabrouk El Mechri, produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L) in co-production with Gaumont (F) and Artemis Productions (B) and starring Jean-Claude Van Damme has hit French screens on June 4 and will be released in Belgium on June 18.
www.samsa-film.com

After screening in the Directors’ Fortnight, three awards (including the Europa Cinemas Label Award, which should lead to wide distribution in Europe, and the Fipresci Prize), and an enthusiastic critical reception, Benelux Film Distribution have released ELDORADO by Bouli Lanners, produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart in Belgium on June 4 to be followed by the French release on June 18.
www.versus.be

There will be a special screening of MOUTH TO MOUTH by Alison Murray at the Curzon Soho in London on Sunday June 15th at 2pm followed by a Q&A with members of cast and crew. The film was produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Anne Beresford (MJW Productions, UK).
Tickets are £8 and can be purchased online at: http://www.curzoncinemas.com/whats_on/all_times/all_venues/q_a/mouth_to_mouth_q_a_cast_crew 
www.mouthtomouthmovie.com
 
Sam Gabarski’s IRINA PALM, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye, co-produced by EAVE 1992 graduate & EAVE president Jani Thiltges and EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson will be released in the UK on June 13.
www.entrechienetloup.be

Erick Zonca’s JULIA, co-produced by EAVE 1989 graduate Hubert Toint (Saga Film, B)
will be released in Germany on June 19.
www.sagafilm.be

EAVE 2005 project LA PALOMA, produced by EAVE graduate Sigrid Faltin (White Pepper Filmgesellschaft, D) in co-production with French Seppia will be released in Germany by Realfiction on June 26. First Hand Films (EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel) is handling international sales.
www.whitepepper.de

ON DVD

MOUTH TO MOUTH by Alison Murray, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Anne Beresford (MJW Productions, UK), will be released on DVD on June 16.
www.mouthtomouthmovie.com

AWARDS

CANNES FILM FESTIVAL
COMPETITION
- The FIPRESCI jury of international critics of the Cannes Film Festival presented its award to Kornél Mundruczó’s DELTA, selected in official competition and produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi
UN CERTAIN REGARD
- Un Certain Regard Award, the top award of the section, went to TULPAN by Sergey Dvortsevoi, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
- Heart Throb Jury Prize (Un Certain Regard) for CLOUD 9 by Andreas Dresen, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
- Juraj Lehotsky’s Slovakian film BLIND LOVES by Juraj Lehotský, sales: EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger, won the CICAE Award
- 6th "Regards Jeunes" Prize as well as the Europa Cinemas Label (Directors' Fortnight) for ELDORADO by Bouli Lanners, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
CRITICS WEEK
- Prix OFAJ/TV5Monde de la (Toute Jeune) Critique (Critics’ Week) for LA SANGRE BROTA by Pablo Fendrik, co-producers: EAVE 2000 graduate Claire Lajoumard and EAVE 2007 graduate Hans Eddy Schreiber’s company Neue Cameo Film (producer: Ole Landsjöaasen)
- Critics Week Grand Prix for SNOW by Aida Begic, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
- Rail d’or for Best Short Film for LA COPIE DE CORALIE by Nicolas Engel, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Serge Guez (Crescendo Films, F)
MEDIA EUROPEAN TALENT PRIZE
EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa (Homeless Bob Production, EE) received the MEDIA European Talent Prize for the the project The Temptation of St. Tony. The project was developed during EAVE 2007
www.festival-cannes.fr

FILMKUNSTFEST SCHWERIN
- NACHT VOR AUGEN, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski, received the DEFA Newcomer Award
- DIE BEGEGNUNG directed and produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Susann Schimk, was awarded Best Short Film
www.filmkunstfest-mv.de

WHERE IS WINKY'S HORSE?, a Dutch/Belgian co-production directed by Mischa Kamp and produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal, received the Golden Slipper for Best Feature Film for Children and a commendation of the international ecumenical jury at the 48th Zlin International Film Festival for Children and Youth in the Czech Republic.

The Best Cinematography Award – provided by Kodak Cinelabs Romania: Mart Taniel  for AUTUMN BALL (director: Veiko Öunupuu, Estonia, 2007), produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa (Kuukulgur, EE).
www.kuukulgur.ee

EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA by José Luis Torres Leiva, produced by EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau in co-production with EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel was awarded the international competition's $7,000 Daum Jury Special Prize at Korea's 9th Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF). The dramatic feature also won the FIPRESCI prize at Rotterdam earlier this year.
www.charivari.fr

The National Union of Film Journalists in Italy at the 2008 Nastri d’Argento, has voted Sam Garbaski’s IRINA PALM Best European Film 2008. IRINA PALM was produced by produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye, and co-produced by EAVE 1992 graduate & EAVE president Jani Thiltges and EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson.
http://www.cinegiornalisti.it/

Winner of the Quartz for Best Documentary at the 2008 Swiss Film Awards, Stefan Schwietert’s ECHOES OF HOME, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Brigitte Hofer, also won over the jury at the 56th Trento International Festival of Mountain, Exploration and Adventure Film (April 22-May 4), where it was awarded the Golden Gentian – City of Bolzano Prize.
www.maximage.ch

On top of the Special Mention at the Berlinale 2008 and the IFTA, short film NEW BOY, directed by Steph Green, and produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Tamara Anghie (Zanzibar Films, IRL) just won "Best Narrative Short" at the Tribeca Film Festival. 
www.zanzibarfilms.net

PRIX DES LYCEENS DU CINEMA BELGE FRANCOPHONE
4000 students in Belgium have made their vote and awarded IRINA PALM (producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate & EAVE president Jani Thiltges, EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson) with the “Prix des lycéens du Cinéma belge francophone 2008” as well as the “Prix des délégués de classe”.
Other special awards went to LA RAISON DU PLUS FAIBLE (producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum: Prix de " la dernière séquence" and  Prix du "film le plus en résonance avec notre société") as well as NUE PROPRIETE, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Donato Rotunno, that received the Prix de "l'atmosphère".
www.culture-enseignement.cfwb.be

JUNE SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS

MEDIA MUNDUS – Public Consultation and Hearing
MEDIA Mundus is a new programme under proposal by the European Commission in consultation with the MEDIA Programme. It is intended to expand some of the work of the MEDIA Programme beyond European borders, mainly in the areas of training and distribution and exhibition networks.  It is presently being piloted as a preparatory action called MEDIA International. Public consultation with the European audiovisual industry is now open. There is an imminent deadline of 15 June for submitting a response. The written consultation will be followed by a public hearing in Brussels on 25 June 2008.

Public Consultation online: The purpose of this consultation is to gather information and opinion on possible action lines to be taken in a possible future MEDIA MUNDUS programme.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/mundus/index_en.htm
 
Pulic Hearing in Brussels on June 25: The objective of this public hearing is to provide an opportunity for all professionals from Europe and elsewhere in the world, to debate issues and share opinions on action lines to be proposed in a possible MEDIA MUNDUS programme. Registration until June 15.
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/mundus/public_hearing/index_en.htm

DVDOC
With more than 100.000 visitors so far, a catalogue of over 30 films and various new producers associated (GROUPOV, le GSARA, 7ïa Films), DVDOC has had a very encouraging start. DVDOC.be, a web-based DVD selling platform, entirely dedicated to documentaries. DVDOC is a catalogue of high-quality films. Documentaries by filmmakers convinced that positioning is fundamental in an increasingly complex world. Directors that develop punching viewpoints and dare to take original visual paths. DVDOC is a joint initiative by EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc (Iota production, B), EAVE graduate Geneviève De Bauw (Thank You & Good Night, B), Denis Delcampe (Need Productions), and Jacques Martin (Crossroads). Contact : pro@dvdoc.be
www.dvdoc.be

This month on CINEUROPA (www.cineuropa.org):
An interview with Bouli Lanners, director of ELDORADO, produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Versus, BE): http://www.cineuropa.org/interview.aspx?lang=en&documentID=84187

EAVE NEWSFLASH – 10 Awards in Cannes for EAVE producers!

After another successful edition of the Cannes Film Festival with 14 films produced by EAVE graduates in the official programme, 4 EAVE projects at the Atelier of the Cinefondation, 4 EAVE producers selected for Producers On the Move and some 50 EAVE producers at the Producers Network, we are delighted to announce that an incredible ten awards were received by EAVE producers this year in Cannes.

COMPETITION
- The FIPRESCI jury of international critics of the Cannes Film Festival presented its award to Kornél Mundruczó’s DELTA, selected in official competition and produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Viktoria Petranyi

UN CERTAIN REGARD
- Un Certain Regard Award, the top award of the section, went to TULPAN by Sergey Dvortsevoi, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Valerie Fischer
- Heart Throb Jury Prize (Un Certain Regard) for CLOUD 9 by Andreas Dresen, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel

DIRECTORS’ FORTNIGHT
- Juraj Lehotsky’s Slovakian film BLIND LOVES by Juraj Lehotský, sales: EAVE 2007 graduate Susanne Guggenberger, won the CICAE (International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas) Award
- 6th "Regards Jeunes" Prize as well as the Europa Cinemas Label (Directors' Fortnight) for ELDORADO by Bouli Lanners, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart

CRITICS WEEK
- Prix OFAJ/TV5Monde de la (Toute Jeune) Critique (Critics’ Week) for LA SANGRE BROTA by Pablo Fendrik, co-producers: EAVE 2000 graduate Claire Lajoumard and EAVE 2007 graduate Hans Eddy Schreiber’s company Neue Cameo Film (producer: Ole Landsjöaasen)
- Critics Week Grand Prix for SNOW by Aida Begic, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
- Rail d’or for Best Short Film for LA COPIE DE CORALIE by Nicolas Engel, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Serge Guez (Crescendo Films, F)
MEDIA EUROPEAN TALENT PRIZE
EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa (Homeless Bob Production, EE) received the MEDIA European Talent Prize for the the project THE TEMPTATION OF ST. TONY. The project was developed during EAVE 2007

EAVE congratulates our graduates and participants and wishes them and their production companies continuing success for 2008 and beyond!

EAVE NEWS – FESTIVALS & MARKETS in 2008

Buenos Aires International Independent Film Festival, April 6-20
- DUST, producers: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert, EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer
- STAGES, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit
- ONE WHO SET FORTH - WIM WENDERS' EARLY YEARS, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik
- FRAGMENTS SUR LA GRACE, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute
- THE MOURNING FOREST, associate producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute
- ONCE, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland
- EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA, producers: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau, EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter Rommel 
- EMPTIES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jiri Konecny
- TOGETHER, director: EAVE 2003 participant Jannik Splidsboel, producer: EAVE 2003 raduate Henrik Underbjerg
- UNIDAD 25, associate producer: EAVE 2008 participant Fernanda del Nido
www.bafici.gov.ar

Buenos Aires Lab, April 11-13
EAVE is proud to be partner of BAL (BUENOS AIRES LAB), during the 10th Buenos Aires International Film Festival (BAFICI). BAL is a co-production market for Latin American independent film projects. During 3 days, one-to-one meetings and a work in progress section will be organised. Thanks to EAVE’s partnership with BAL, the following EAVE producers are taking part at BAL: EAVE 2007 graduate José Barrio, EAVE 1991 graduate Albert Sagales, EAVE 2005 graduate Per Forsgren, EAVE 2001 graduate Ulrike Zimmermann.
www.bafici.gov.ar

Diagonale, April 1-6
Opening film: BACK TO AFRICA, co-prod.: EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Peter Rommel
- CHILDREN OF THE PROPHET, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Robert Winkler
- DARUM, producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Andreas Hruza
- DEAD MAN WALKING, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisha Juricic
- EISENWURZEN. 4 BEATS PRO MINUTE, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Michael Kitzberger
- EZRA, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder
- THE COUNTERFEITERS, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer
- FREE TO LEAVE, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & Austrian national coordinator Erich Lackner
- GRBAVICA, co-producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski
- GUCHA – DISTANT TRUMPET, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer
- HALBES LEBEN, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Michael Kitzberger
- HERMES PHETTBERGER, ELENDER, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Markus Fischer
- INTERROGATION, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Amra Baksic-Camo
- MIDSUMMER MADNESS, producers: EAVE 2001 graduate Markus Fischer, EAVE 2002 graduate Guntis Trekteris
- ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE ALPS, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar
- THE BLACK LION, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate & group leader Danny Krausz
- TEAR WORKS, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Ursula Scribano
- TO&FRO, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Amra Baksic-Camo
- DIE VATERSUCHERIN, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik, EAVE 2006 graduate Michael Kitzberger
- SILENT RESIDENT, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder
- WHAT DO I KNOW, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Amra Baksic-Camo
www.diagonale.at

Sprockets Toronto International Film Festival for Children, April 12-18
- LOTTE FROM GADGETVILLE, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate & Estonian national coordinator Riina Sildos
- WHERE IS WINKY’S HORSE?, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
http://sprockets.ca/

Festival del Cinema Europeo, April 15-20
- I AM FROM TITOV VELES, producers: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska, EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi
- VIVERE, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij
- SUMMER IN WINTER, associate producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Franco Bocca Gelsi
- OFF THE ROPES, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli
www.europecinefestival.org

Nyon Visions du Reel Switzerland, April 17-23
- CORRIDOR #8, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel
- THE MOURNING FOREST, associate producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute
- CAMPO SANTO, producer: EAVE 2007 participant Isabelle Truc, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Serge Guez
- COLD WAVES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian national coordinator Ada Solomon, sales: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges
www.visionsdureel.ch

Hot Docs Canadian International Festival, April 17-27
- CORRIDOR #8, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel 
- FOOTBALL UNDER COVER, producers: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, EAVE 2006 graduate Patrick Merkle
- TO SEE IF I’M SMILING, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel 
- WHO IS AFRAID OF KATHY ACKER, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Markus Fischer
www.hotdocs.ca

BritSpotting Film Festival Cologne/Stuttgart, April 24-27
- THIS IS ENGLAND, executive producer: EAVE 1997 graduate Peter Carlton
- 32A, producers: EAVE 2003 graduate Tommy Weir, EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, distributor: EAVE 2003 graduate Andreas Rothbauer
- KINGS, co-producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Michael Casey
www.britspotting.de

Tribeca Film Festival in New York, April 23 – May 4
- FOOTBALL UNDER COVER, producers: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, EAVE 2006 graduate Patrick Merkle
- HESITATION, director: EAVE 2005 graduate Virginia Gilbert, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Julien Berlan, executive producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Rebekah Wray-Rogers
- NEW BOY, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Tamara Anghie
- SAVAGE GRACE, co-producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute
www.tribecafilmfestival.org

San Francisco International Film Festival, April 24 – May 8
- DUST, producers: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert, EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer
- GARAGE, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Edward Guiney
- KINGS, co-produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Michael Casey
- NEW BOY by Steph Green, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Tamara Anghie
http://fest08.sffs.org/

Filmkunstfest Schwerin, April 29 – May 4
- DIE BEGEGNUNG, producer: EAVE 2007 participant Susann Schimk
- NACHT VOR AUGEN, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski
- THE COUNTERFEITERS, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer
www.filmkunstfest-mv.de

Other festivals in April:

EAVE 2005 project LA PALOMA. LONGING. WORLDWIDE. (German title: La Paloma. Sehnsucht. Weltweit), a co-production between White Pepper Films, Germany, and Seppia (F), will have its premiere in Hamburg during the Documentary Film Week on April 28. On April 29 it will have its preview in Berlin (Haus der Kulturen der Welt) and on May 2nd in Freiburg, before the cinema release mid June.
www.whitepepper.de

L’ENFANT BORNE by Pascal Mieszala, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Aurélie Bordier (Les Enragés, F) is showing this month at the Franco-German Short Film Meetings in Strasbourg, at the Cine en Herbe Meetings in Montluçon and a the Grasse Film Festival.
www.lesenrages.com

HOUNDS by Ann-Kristin Reyels, produced by EAVE 2007 participant Susann Schimk (credo:film, D) and German film school HFF Konrad Wolf has been selected for the Filmfestival Kristiansand in Norway.
www.credofilm.de / www.jagdhunde.zauberlandfilm.de

WAS AM ENDE ZÄHLT by Julia von Heinz, produced by EAVE 2007 participant Susann Schimk (credo:film, D), will be shown at the Turin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Mailandin Italy.
www.credofilm.de / www.cinemagaylesbico.com

HIMMERLAND, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Henrik Underbjerg (Radiator Film, DK) has a sneak premiere on NatFilm Festival this month in Denmark.
www.radiatorfilm.com



EAVE NEWSLETTER April 2008
4 EAVE projects selected for the Atelier of the CINEFONDATION…

IN DEVELOPMENT/PRE-PRODUCTION

The Finnish Film Foundation has granted €1.1m in production support to four
new films, including Rational Solution, produced by EAVE 2002 graduate
Helena Danielsson (Hepp Film, SE), in co-production with Blind Spot Pictures
(FI), and ANGEL, produced by Norway’s Thomas Robsham (Speanza Film) in
co-production with Finland’s Periferia Productions (EAVE 1994 graduate Outi
Rousu). ANGEL is the directorial debut of established documentary filmmaker
Margreth Olin. Swedish star Endre plays a drug addict who becomes a mother
and has to deal with responsibility and self-respect. The €2.5m film, which
starts shooting this month, is co-financed by broadcasters NRK, SVT and YLE
TV1. Also supported: Last Cowboy Standing, produced by Juonifilmi Oy (EAVE
2006 graduate Matti Halonen, FI) in co-production with Germany’s Niko Film
(EAVE 2006 graduate Nicole Gerhards), is the directorial debut of Zaida
Bergroth. The story of a family breaking apart in Finland during the 1970s
and 80s also received support from YLE TV1, ZDF/Arte and the Nordisk Film &
TV Fond. Shooting will take place from April 22 to June 30. FS Film will
handle domestic distribution.
www.ses.fi

The Dutch Film Fund has allocated production funds to THE PRESIDENT, which
Erik de Bruyn will direct for Lemming Film (EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine
Petit). The adaptation of the Khalid Boudou novel (itself a riff on Jerzy
Kosinski’s Being There) received a provisional allocation of €600,000 and
relates how Joesoef, an illegal Moroccan immigrant, became the first
president of the Republic of the Netherlands. Lemming film will also produce
Ineke Houtman’s Mooi leven (Beautiful Life), in which a girl tries to help
her Surinam grandfather remember things about his past.
www.filmfund.nl

IN PRODUCTION

Rational Solution, the directing debut of Jörgen Bergmark, which won the
Arte French Cinema Award at Cinemart 2007 starts shooting this month. The
tragicomedy focuses on an active church member who suddenly falls in love
with his best friend’s wife and comes up with a rational solution: all
concerned should try to live together in his house. The film is produced by
EAVE 2002 graduate Helena Danielsson (Hepp Film, SE), in co-production with
Finland’s Blind Spot Pictures, with co-financing from broadcasters YLE and
SVT.
Domestic distribution will be handled by Nordisk Film and world sales by The
Match Factory.
The shooting will take place from April 21 to June 17.
www.heppfilm.se

Icelandic filmmaker Dagur Kári has secured the US up and coming star Paul
Dano and veteran Scottish actor Brian Cox for his first English language
film THE GOOD HEART set to start shooting this month in New York and in
Iceland. The Good Heart is Kári's third feature film after his successful
Icelandic debut NOI ALBINOI and his Danish film DARK HORSE. The project
which has been several years in development is produced by Skuli Fr.
Malmquist and Thor S. Sigurjonsson for Zik Zak Productions, and executive
produced by Joni Sighvatsson, Robin O'Hara and Scott Macaulay. The film is
co-produced by EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman’s company Ex Nihilo in
France, Forensic Films in the US and Nimbus Film in Denmark, with support
from the Danish Film Institute, the Icelandic Film Centre, Eurimages and
Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
www.zikzak.is

Currently shooting until May: docu-fiction ESCAPE FROM THE CALL CENTER by
Federico Rizzo, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Franco Bocca Gelsi and EAVE
1989 graduate Gianfilippo Pedote (Gagarin scarl, IT). The film is supported
by Provincia di Milano, Comune di Milano, CGIL Lombardia.
www.fugadalcallcenter.com

Shooting for ROBBER GIRLS aka RÄUBERINNEN by Carla Lia Monti will start this
month, 3 weeks in Zurich and then 3 weeks in Luxemburg. The film is produced
by EAVE 2007 graduate Tunje Berns (Dschoint Ventschr, CH) in co-production
with EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges who met at EAVE Workshop 1 in
Luxembourg in 2007.
www.dschointventschr.ch

Currently shooting since February 12: WWII movie MAX MANUS by Espen Sandberg
and Joachim Ronning, produced by John M. Jacobsen (PATHFINDER) and Sveinung
Golimo for Filmkameratene (NO) and co-produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Rudi
Teichmann (B & T Film GmbH, D). MAX MANUS will be ready early 2009 and
Nordisk Film will handle domestic distribution.
www.bt-film.de

After Green Desert (1999), Kebab Connection in 2005 (both winners of
festival Audience Awards) and Where Is Fred? (2006), Anno Saul has been
shooting his fourth feature, thriller Die Tür (The DoOR), in Berlin since
March 26. The lead role is played by well-known Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen
(currently appearing in Ole Christian Madsen’s Flame & Citron, widely
released across Denmark recently). The rest of the cast includes prominent
German actors Jessica Schwarz, Thomas Thieme, and Heike Makatsch. The film
is produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel and Stefan Schubert for
major Hamburg company Wüste Filmproduktion in co-production with Christoph
Müller (Senator Filmproduktion). The project has received financial backing
from the Hamburg Schleswig Holstein regional fund, FFA, Medienboard
Berlin-Brandenburg and DFFF (German Federal Film Fund).
www.wuestefilm.de

Bondi follows two women to the Black Sea Kicking off it's five-week shoot in
Florence earlier on this month, Federico Bondi's debut feature Mar nero
(Black Sea, working title) will then move to the city of Sulina, on the
Danube Delta.
MAR NERO is being produced by Francesco Pamphili of Film Kairos in
collaboration with RAI Cinema and the Toscana Film Commission, in
co-production with EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian national coordinator Ada
Solomon (HiFilm, RO) and Manigolda Film (F) and with support from the MEDIA
Plus Programme and the Italian Ministry of Culture (MiBAC).
www.hifilm.ro

CURRENTLY PLAYING

LE PREMIER VENU by Jacques Doillon, produced by EAVE 1992 & president Jani Thiltges, EAVE 1994 graduate & group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye was released in France on April 2.
www.artemisproductions.com

SENTEURS by Laura Schroeder, executive produced by EAVE 2008 participant
Romain Roll (Red Lion, L) will have its Luxembourg premiere on April 10 at
the cinema Utopolis.
www.redlionproductions.net

IRINA PALM, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye, co-produced by EAVE 1992 graduate & EAVE president Jani Thiltges, EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson, will be released on April 11 in Canadian cinemas by Seville.
www.entrechienetloup.be

ROME RATHER THAN YOU by Tariq Teguia, co-produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers (Flying Moon, D) will be released in France on April 16.
www.flyingmoon.com

DUNYA & DESIE by Dana Nechushtan, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit and company Lemming Film (NL) will open in Belgian cinemas on April 16.
www.lemmingfilm.nl

KHADAK by EAVE 1995 graduate Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert (MA.JA.DE, D), Lemming Film (NL), EAVE 1995 graduate Peter Brosens (Bo Films, B) and the Motion Investment Group (B) will be released in Germany on April 17.
http://www.majade.de

PRIVATE PROPERTY by Joachim Lafosse, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Donato Rotunno (Tarantula, L), Tarantula Belgium and Mact Productions (F) will be released across the UK on April 18.
www.tarantula.lu

LA MAREA by Diego Martinez Vignatti, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Sebastien Delloye (Entre Chien et Loup, B) will come to French cinemas on April 23.
www.entrechienetloup.be

THE MOURNING FOREST, associate producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute, will be released in Belgium on April 23.

Also hitting the screens in France on April 23: LEMON TREE, co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina
Brokemper).
www.heimatfilm.de

FOOTBALL UNDER COVER, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht
Nedjad, EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, EAVE 2006 graduate Patrick Merkle
(Flying Moon, D) will be released in Germany on April 24.
www.flyingmoon.com

German release on April 24: NEANDERTAL by Jan-Christoph Glaser
http://www.zelluloid.de/person/index.php3?id=72680  and Ingo Haeb
http://www.zelluloid.de/person/index.php3?id=20728 , produced by EAVE 1994
graduate and group leader Peter Rommel.

COUNTERPARTS, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina Brokemper) come to Belgian cinemas on April 30.
www.heimatfilm.de

ON TV

ARD on April 6 at 0h00: EAVE 2001 project UNVEILED by Angelina Maccarone, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Ulrike Zimmerman (MMM Filmproduktion, D) in co-production with EAVE 2001 graduate Markus Fischer (Fischer Film, AT).
www.mmmfilm.de

VALERIE by Birgit Möller, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Susann Schimk (credo:film, D) will be broadcast on April 28 at 0h15 on German public channel ZDF.
www.credofilm.de

AUDIENCE TOP HIT

SOFIA’S DIARY a virtual interactive series produced by Irish company
Campbell Ryan Productions has topped five million hits in its first week on
social networking site Bebo.
The soap opera debuted on Friday 14 March with the first episode attracting
305,000 views during the first 24 hours on Bebo and reached a cumulative
total of just over five million views since it’s launch.
The series, aimed at teenagers and twenty-somethings, is produced by Irish
EAVE 2006 graduate Triona Campbell and shot in London. The story follows the
ups and downs in the life of 17-year-old Sofia Taylor, played by Rachel
Hyde-Harvey (The Bill, Holby City).
Conceived by EAVE 2006 graduate Nuno Bernardo, SOFIA’S DIARY was originally
launched in Portugal in 2003 as an experimental web and mobile service. The
original programme now has 200,000 visitors per month online, over 19,000
mobile subscribers and has run four series on Portuguese state broadcaster,
RTP2. The format, owned by Sony Pictures Television International, has since
been adapted for audiences in the United States, Germany, Brazil, Chile,
Turkey, Vietnam and now the UK and Ireland.
www.campbellryanproductions.com

NOMINATIONS

GERMAN FILM AWARDS
- AM LIMIT, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate & Austrian national coordinator
Erich Lackner
- BLACK BOOK, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer: Carice van Houten for Best Actress, Best Costume Design for Yan Tax
- GEGENÜBER (produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause’s Heimatfilm, producer: Bettina Brokemper), Victoria Trauttmansdorff for Best Actress and Matthias Brandt for Best Actor
- FREI NACH PLAN, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Susann Schimk: Christine Schorn for Best Female Supporting Actress
- ABSURDISTAN, director/producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer: Best Production Design for Erwin Prib
www.deutsche-filmakademie.de

AWARDS & SELECTIONS

2008 ATELIER CINEFONDATION
For its fourth edition, the prestigious Atelier of the Cinefondation
selected 15 projects from 14 countries. Out of these 15 projects selected
worldwide, 3 projects have been developped at EAVE and 1 project is produced
by an EAVE graduate:
- EAVE 2007 project FIRST OF ALL FELICIA by Razvan Radulescu & Melissa De Raaf, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian national coordinator Ada
Solomon 
- EAVE 2008 project WHITE, WHITE WORLD by Oleg Novkovic, producer: Uliks Fehmiu
- EAVE project ONE MORE CROISSANT by Ilmar Raag, producer: EAVE 2004
graduate & Estonian national coordinator Riina Sildos
- QUELEH by Abdi Ismael Jama, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Guillaume de Seille
http://www.festival-cannes.com

L'Estate D'Inverno (The Summer In Winter) by Davide Sibaldi, associate
produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Franco Bocca Gelsi for Ardaco, has won the
Awards for Best Film of the Festival and Best Actress of the European
Independent Film Festival (ECU 2008, Paris).
http://www.ecufilmfestival.com/2008_award-winners.php?lang=en
http://www.lestatedinverno.com

APRIL SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS

TIES THAT BIND: Asia & Europe Co-production and Co-distribution Summit
In occasion of the 10th anniversary edition of UDINE FAR EAST FILM, FRIULI VENEZIA GIULIA FILM COMMISSION - AUDIOVISUAL REGIONAL FUND is organizing together with the festival a meeting dedicated to the great production and distribution experiences started between Europe and Asia. TIES THAT BIND, scheduled on April 21/22, 2008, will gather key persons from within the international cinema industry, giving an insight on their production or distribution projects, and the dynamics of the relationship between Asia and Europe. On April 21, there will also be a short presentation of EAVE by Deputy Chief Executive Tina Trapp.
The following EAVE graduates have been selected to attend: EAVE 2008 participant Jozko Rutar, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac, EAVE 2004 graduate Mark John, EAVE 2004 graduate Eleni Atsikbasis, EAVE 2006 graduate Wolfgang Latteyer, EAVE 2007 graduate Sinisha Juricic.
www.fareastfilm.com

WANTED: EUROPEAN AND INTERNATIONAL CO-PRODUCTION PARTNERS
The Sturmtruppen are back, in an animated TV series produced by EAVE 1994
graduate Andrea De Micheli for Casta Diva Pictures and partners. Casta Diva
Pictures, the Milan and Prague production company, have completed a 6’
pilote episode for a TV series called the Sturmtruppen, based on the famous
Italian comics created in the 70s by Bonvi. Translated and published in over
30 countries, Sturmtruppen is still generating merchandising. The pilot has
been included in the official selection of the 2008 Cartoons On The Bay
Festival and the 2008 Annecy International Animated Film Festival and can be
seen on:
www.castadivapictures.com/clientarea
Casta Diva Pictures is looking for co-producers in Europe and other countries.
For more information, please don’t hesitate to contact Andrea De Micheli, at +39-329-6713562 or a.demicheli@castadivapictures.com

This month on CINEUROPA (www.cineuropa.org):
- FILM FOCUS on BLACK ICE by Petri Kotwica, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Karle Aho.
http://www.cineuropa.org/ffocus.aspx?lang=en&documentID=83264&treeID=1507

The EAVE Programme is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European
Union, Film Fund Luxembourg, the Nordic Baltic Film Fund, Filmfonds Wien,
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, MFG-Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg,
Skillset, Berlinale Co-production Market and the partners who have hosted
the workshops since 1988.



EAVE NEWSLETTER – Festivals & Markets in March 2008

SOFIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL:

Galas & Avant-Premiers
4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate and French national coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
European Screen
- GARAGE, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Edward Guiney
- IRINA PALM, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate & EAVE president Jani Thiltges, EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson
- KINGS, co-producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Michael Casey
- ONCE, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland
- THE CLASS, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate and Estonian national coordinator Riina Sildos
Balkan Films Showcase
- 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate and French national coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
- I AM FROM TITOV VELES, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska, co-producers: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi, EAVE 1994 graduate Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-producers: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin
Lost and Found Reunion
- 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate and French national coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
- GRBAVICA, co-producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski
- JOHANNA, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Victoria Petranyi
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic, co-producers: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin
Focus The Netherlands
WOLFSBERGEN, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Rudolf Mestdagh
Dom Rotheroe
EXHIBIT A, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Darren Bender, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Rebekah Wray-Rogers
Documentary Programme
CORRIDOR #8, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel
SOFIA MEETINGS:
EAVE is delighted to announce that in the framework of our partnership with Sofia Meetings, 3 EAVE 2007 projects have been selected:
- THE WHITE GRASS, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Sylvie Brenet (F)
- COME IN, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jonas Dornbach (D)
- LOW LIGHTS, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ieva Norviliene (LT)
In addition, 4 EAVE producers have been invited to take part at Sofia Meetings: Simone Baumann (LE Vision, D), Edward Porembny (AMP Polska, PL), Hans Eddy Schreiber (Neue Cameo Film, D) and Antonin Dedet (neon cinema, F).
www.cinema.bg/sff

HONG KONG FILM FESTIVAL
Gala Presentation
- THE COUNTERFEITERS, co-producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer
- ONCE, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland
Master Class
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY, co-producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney
Global Vision
- EL OTRO, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute
- ERIK NIETZSCHE THE EARLY YEARS, producer: EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz
- L’ORA DI PUNTA, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Tilde Corsi
www.hkiff.org.hk

FIFA Montréal
International Panorama - Trajectories
- THE ART DEALER, ERNST BEYELER, producers:  EAVE 1999 graduate Laurent Dené, EAVE 1995 graduate Josiane Schauner
- JOURNEY TO TUNIS, producer: EAVE 1989 graduate Rolf Schmid
Focus on the 7th Art
ONE WHO SET FORTH - WIM WENDERS' EARLY YEARS, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Arek Gielnik
Competition: Creative Crossroads - Closing Film
EN ATTENDANT LES HOMMES, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Aurélien Bodinaux
http://www.artfifa.com/

Other festivals:

EL OTRO by Ariel Rotter, produced by EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute has been selected for the Ibero-American Cinema Competition of the Miami International Film Festival.
http://www.miamifilmfestival.com/2008/

Documentary DUST, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert and co-produced by EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer has been selected for “Seances Speciales” section of the Festival Cinema du Réel 2007 in Paris.
www.cinereel.org

FREI NACH PLAN, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Susann Schimk (credo:film, D) has been selected for the Aubagne International Film Festival in France.
www.alcime.nuxit.net

STILLE POST, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Susann Schimk (credo:film, D) was shown this month at the REDCAT International Children's Film Festival, Los Angeles, USA.
www.redcat.org

SUMMER IN WINTER by Davide Sibaldi, associate produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Franco Bocca Gelsi (Gagarin scarl, IT) has been selected for the follozing festivals in March: The European Independent Film Festival 2008 in Paris, the Renderyard International Film Festival 2008 in London and the Swansea Bay Film Festival 2008 (Swansea, WALES).

After winning five IFTAs last month, Tom Collins’ feature KINGS, co-produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Michael Casey, continues to gather momentum across the pond in the US. This month saw the feature open the New York Craic Film Festival and scoop the Up State New York, Westchester Film Festival, Best International Feature Award.

WINKY’S HORSE by Mischa Kamp, produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal (Bos Bros Film-TV Productions BV, NL) is part of the programme of the Freibug International Film Festival in Switzerland.
www.fiff.ch

L’ENFANT BORNE by Pascal Mieszala, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Aurélie Bordier (Les Enragés, F) has been shown at the Paris Tout Court Film Festival and at the Aubagne Film Festival this month. The short film is also nominated for the French Short Film Awards.
www.lesenrages.com

Video installation ELEMENTS by Pierre Vinour, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Aurélie Bordier (Les Enragés, F) in co-production with ARCADI has been selected for the Toulouse Traverse Video Festival at Centre Culturel Bellegarde where it is playing from 13th to 27th of March 2008
www.traverse-video.org

Short film ON THE SUNNY SIDE OF THE ALPS directed by Janez Burger, produced by EAVE 2008 participant Jožko Rutar for production house STARAGARA (SI) has been selected at the following festivals in March: European short film festival, Reus, Spain, european competition; Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria, Best Balkan Short Films; Film Festival EX-YU FEST, Podgorica, Montenegro; International Film Festival Corto in Bra, Piemonte, Italy, competition programme and Paris Tout Court Festival, France, international competition programme.
www.nasoncnistranialp.com / www.staragara.com



EAVE NEWSLETTER March 2008

IN DEVELOPMENT/PRE-PRODUCTION

The Finnish Film Foundation has awarded production support to Dome Karukoski's third feature film FORBIDDEN FRUIT, which will be his second partnership with EAVE 2002 graduate and EAVE Finnish national coordinator Aleksi Bardy after BEAUTY AND THE BASTARD (2005). Based on a script by Bardy, the new project is set in an apostolic Lutheran community. Two young girls have a taste of ‘normal' life during a summer and have to choose between the two different worlds. The €1.4m film awarded €600,000 from the FFF will start shooting on May 14, 2008. Co-financing was provided by YLE and Sandrew Metronome will release it late 2008.
KID & KILLER by Finnish born Hannu Salonen was awarded €70,000. Based on an original script co-written by Salonen with Mart Kivastik and Katrin Laur, KID & KILLER is the story of a friendship between a 16 year-old boy and a Chechen man. The €1.2m film is produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Jarkko Hentula (Juonifilmi, FI), in co-production with Estonia's Allfilm and Germany's Philipp Honberg Filmproduktion. Co-financiers are YLE TV1, ARD Degeto and ETV.
www.ses.fi/en/

In its latest round of development support, EURIMAGES has awarded funding to 5 projects produced by EAVE producers:
- EAVE 2005 project 3 SEASONS IN HELL by Tomas Masin, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Ivana Vrbikova (Dawson, CZ): 450.000 euros
- FRAGMENTS OF GRACE, directed by EAVE 1995 graduate Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert (ma.ja.de, D), co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye (Entre Chien et Loup, B), EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit (Lemming Film, NL): 360.000 euros
- EEP by Rita Horst, prod: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit (Lemming Film, NL): 400.000 euros
- LA REGATE by Bernard Bellefroid, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges and EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye: 180.000 euros
- Forgotten Space by Allan Sekula and Noel Burch, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ebba Sinzinger (WildArt Film, AT) 125.000 euros
http://www.coe.int/eurimages

Feature Film BRENT SPAR, produced by Niama Filmproduktion GmbH (D) and EAVE 2002 graduate Ludger Pfanz (Planet Film und Fernsehproduktion GmbH, D) has been granted euros development support by German regional fund MFG-Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg.
www.mfg.de/film / www.planet-international.de

German national fund FFA has granted 550.000 euros production support for feature film HILDE by Kai Wessel, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer (Egoli Tossell Film). 300.000 euros went to EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel (Wüste Film) for Sven Taddicken’s latest feature ZWÖLF METER OHNE KOPF.
www.ffa.de

A total of 400.000 euros in the framework of the French-German mini-treaty were awarded to THE COUNTESS by Julie Delpy, produced by German X Filme in co-production with EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute (Celluloid Dreams Productions, F).
www.ffa.de

IN PRODUCTION

The shooting of NHK Sundance prize 2008 and Fondation GAN 2008 winner HUACHO by Alejandro Fernandez has just finished in Chile. The film is produced by EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau (Charivari Films) co-produced by Christoph Friedel (Pandora Films, D) and Arte France Cinema.
www.charivari.fr

The shooting of feature film DIAMANT 13 by Gilles Beat continues in Luxembourg since March 17. The film is delegate produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges’ production company Samsa Film (L) together with Artémis Productions (B) and MK2 (F) and in co-production with EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye (Liaison Cinématographique, F). The cast reunites Gérard Depardieu and Olivier Marchal. The shooting takes place for 4 weeks in Belgium followed by 5 weeks in Luxembourg. The film is an adaptation of Hugues Pagan’s thriller L'ÉTAGE DES MORTS (“The Floor of the Dead”).
www.samsa-film.com

ZANZIBAR, FROM RHYTHM TO SOUL, feature documentary film directed by Philippe Gasnier and Patrice Nezan, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan (Les Films du Present, F) is a co-production with Ulli Pfau (EIKON MEDIA, D) and ZDF/ARTE (Grand Format). The development has been supported by MEDIA DEVELOPMENT and Region PROVENCE-ALPES COTE D'AZUR. The production is supported by the French national film fund CNC, the producers’ society PROCIREP/ ANGOA, Regions CENTRE and PAYS-DE-LOIRE in France, MFG Baden-Würtenberg in Germany.
www.lesfilmsdupresent.fr

IN POSTPRODUCTION

THE HUNT by Elvita Ruka, produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Guntis Trekteris (Ego Media, LV), is currently in post-production. The release is scheduled for autumn 2008. The film had received MEDIA PLUS Development Support as well as support from the National Film Centre of Latvia, Culture Capital Foundation of Latvia, Nordic Baltic Film Fund, Cinevilla Studio and the Jūrmala City Council.
www.egomediaweb.com

Also in post-production: DON’T LOOK BACK by Marina de Van, Agat Films/Ex-Nihilo (EAVE Group Leader Patrick Sobelman, F), in co-production with Samsa Film (EAVE 1992 graduate and President Jani Thiltges, L), Studio Urania (IT) and Entre Chien et Loup (EAVE 1994 graduate and Group Leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye, B). Main cast are Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci.
www.agatfilms.com / www.samsa-film.com / www.entrechienetloup.be

German director Andreas Dresen’s latest feature WOLKE NEUN aka CLOUD NINE – a romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage, shot in Berlin - is now in postproduction. The film is produced by EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel (Rommel Film, D) and Senator (D).
www.senator.de

Filmbase / RTÉ short film TART wrapped filming early this month on location in Louth, Newry and Mourne. Written and directed by EAVE 2007 graduate Mairtin de Barra, the film stars Brian McGrath (PS I Love You, Stardust), Orla Fitzgerald (The Wind that Shakes the Barley, Love is the Drug), Michael Patric (the Running Mate) and Gerry Shanahan (W.C.). TART is a character piece based on the failing memory of an Alzheimer’s patient and his fight to retain his personality. He lives in happy remembrances and his one true love - when he can remember them. The €10,000 budget film is produced by Steven Davenport, Rachel Lysaght, and Cathleen Dore through Underground Films. TART was shot with the aid of the New Media Factory and the Louth, Newry & Mourne Film Commission.
www.filmcommission.ie

In postproduction: comedy J.C.V.D. by Mabrouk El Mechri, produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L) in co-production with Gaumont (F) and Artemis Productions (B). The film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme.
BRIDE FLIGHT by Dutch director Ben Sombogaart. The €6.4m co-production is produced by IDTV Film (NL), EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L) and Dutch broadcaster NCRV.
www.samsa-film.com

SILENT WEDDING by Horatiu Malaele, which was at last year’s Paris Projects co-production forum, co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac for Castel Film (RO), EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman’s company Agat Films and EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L) is now in postproduction. International sales will be handled by Bac Films.
www.castelfilm.ro

CURRENTLY PLAYING

John Carney’s musical comedy ONCE, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland (Samson Films, IRL), has been released in Belgium on March 5.
www.samsonfilms.com

Franziska Meletzky’s film FREI NACH PLAN, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Susann Schimk (credo:film, D) has been released in German cinemas on March 6.
www.credofilm.de

Lenny Abrahamson's second feature GARAGE, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Edward Guiney (Element Pictures, IRL), is playing in the UK since March 7.
www.elementfilms.ie

JULIA by Erick Zonca, co-produced by EAVE 1989 graduate Hubert Toint (Saga Film, B) is playing in French cinemas since March 12.
www.sagafilm.be

Slovenian/Polish/Croatian co-production TEAH by Hanna Antonina Wojcik-Slak, was released in Poland on March 14. The film was co-produced by Slovenia Studio Maj, SPI International Polska (who are also releasing the film domestically), EAVE 2007 graduate Frenc Celarc (Gustav Film, SI) and Jadran Film in Croatia, with backing from the Polish Film Institute (PISF) and Eurimages.
www.gustavfilm.si

BEN X by Nic Balthazar, co-produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal (Bos Bros Film & TV Productions, NL) has been released in France on March 19.
www.benx.be/eng/defilm.asp

Sundance competitor ABSURDISTAN, directed and produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer, was released in Germany on March 20.
www.absurdistan-derfilm.de

Anders Morgenthaler's animation PRINCESS, produced by Zentropa in co-production with EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel (Shotgun Pictures, D) will be released in Germany on March 27.
www.trust-film.dk

Bavarian Best Young Actress award winner MEER IS NICH by Hagen Keller produced by EAVE 2008 participant Guido Schwab (ostlicht filmproduktion, D) will come to German cinemas on March 27.
www.meerisnich.kinowelt.de

ON TV

4Play music documentary LITTLE LOST DAVID, directed by Virginia Heath and produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Grant Keir (Vita Nova Films, UK) and VKH Films, is broadcast on Channel 4 on Friday 21st March late night at 1.05 am. Little Lost David (aka David Roch) is a rising star on the Sheffield music scene. His poetic songs of love and loss reveal a fascination with the darker side of life…
www.vitanovafilms.com

DIE UNZERBRECHLICHEN, directed by Dominik Wessely and produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Michael Jungfleisch (Gambit Film- und Fernsehproduktion, D) will be shown on German regional channel BR on March 29 at 20h15.
www.gambit-film.de

DVD RELEASES

Documentary SLAM, WORDS ARE BURNING US by Pascal Tessaud, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Nadège Hasson (Temps Noir, F) with support of France 5, CFI, TV5 Monde, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the CNC, Procirep-Angoa, SACEM and ACSE has been released on DVD on March 3.  
http://boutique.francetv.com

NOMINATIONS

L’ENFANT BORNE by Pascal Mieszala, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Aurélie Bordier (Les Enragés, F) has been nominated for the French Short Film Awards. The award ceremony will take place in June.
www.lesenrages.com

AWARDS & SELECTIONS

OSCARS 2008
At the 80th ACADEMY AWARDS award ceremony, 3 films produced by EAVE graduates have received one of the prestigious trophies:
- THE COUNTERFEITERS by Stefan Ruzowitzky, co-produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer, won the Best Foreign Language Film award
-  PETER AND THE WOLF, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Hugh Welchman, was awarded Best Animated Short Film
- Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova winning Best Song ("Falling Slowly") for Irish film ONCE by John Carney, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland
www.oscars.com

GOPOS – Romanian Film Awards
- 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (EAVE 1992 graduate and French national coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac) was awarded 10 competitive 2008 Gopos – the Romanian film industry awards –10 competitive Gopo wins, including Best Film and Best Director (Cristian Mungiu), Best Actress (Anamaria Marinca), Best Supporting Actress (Laura Vasiliu), Best Supporting Actor (Vlad Ivanov) and Best Cinematography (Oleg Mutu).
- Best Documentary for Alexandru Solomon’s COLD WAVES telling the story of Radio Free Europe Romania through the eyes of both its “show stars” and enemies from the Securitate. The documentary was produced by EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian national coordinator Ada Solomon (Hi Film, RO), sales agent: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges (PTD, L)

Sofia International Film Festival
- Special Jury Award for THE BIRD CAN’T FLY by Threes Anna, producers: Anton Scholten, Joel Phiri, and EAVE graduate 2000 Tom Maguire
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES by Stefan Arsenijevic, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic (Art & Popcorn, Serbia & Montenegro) in co-production with EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder and EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin has received the Best Director Award at the Sofia International Film Festival.
- 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (EAVE 1992 graduate and French national coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac) by Cristian Mungiu also won the Best Balkan Film Award given by the Bulgarian Film Critics’ Association at the Sofia International Film Festival.
www.cinema.bg/sff/

EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA, produced by EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau, co-produced by EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel (Rommel Film, D), garnered the Mexico City FICCO Prize at the Festival Internacional de Cine Contemporáneo de la Ciudad de México (FICCO).
www.charivari.fr / www.ficco.com.mx

John Carnew’s musical comedy ONCE, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland (Samson Films, IRL), has received Grand Prix at the FIFA in Mons (Belgium). The award for Best European Film and the Youth Cinephile Jury Award went to THIS IS ENGLAND by Shane Meadows, executive produced by EAVE 1997 graduate Peter Carlton.
www.fifa-mons.be

Raimo O Niemi´s family film MYSTERY OF THE WOLF (SUDEN ARVOITUS, 2006) has won the Golden Cairo award for best feature length film at Cairo International Children´s Film Festival in Egypt. MYSTERY OF THE WOLF is an exciting adventure in the wilderness of the Finnish Lapland. The film produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Leila Lyytikäinen (Kinoproduction Oy, FI) has been screened already at over 30 international festivals around the world, and awarded in Lübeck and London. Its international sales are handled by Nordisk Film International Sales.
www.kinoproduction.fi

SUMMER IN WINTER by Davide Sibaldi, associate produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Franco Bocca Gelsi (Gagarin, IT) has been awarded Best Feature Film at the Lake County Festival (USA).
www.lakecountyfilmfest.com/

The selection of five projects by young film talents marked the end of the first phase of the Sarajevo City of Film project, launched at the initiative of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina Government and the Federal Ministry of Culture and Sports implemented by the Sarajevo Film Festival. The Sarajevo City of Film project will allow participants of the Sarajevo Talent Campus to make low-budget films. The theme of all the selected projects is related to the city of Sarajevo, where the filming is to take place. Among the five selected projects is SEE YOU IN SARAJEVO by Vanja Sviličić, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Siniša Juričić (Croatia). Work on the projects will commence in spring and the final films will be presented and promoted during the 2nd Sarajevo Talent Campus, scheduled during the 14th Sarajevo Film Festival.
http://www.sff.ba/default.aspx?template=\Templates\Article&articleid=13322&lang=en

Documentary BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS by Natia Arabuli, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Siniša Juričić (Croatia) in co-operation with Georgian director Natia Arabuli, has been chosen for the exOriente workshop and will be pitched in Jihlava
http://www.docuinter.net/en/activities.php?kategorie=2&id=91&sid=198&rok=2008

MARCH SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS

This month on CINEUROPA (www.cineuropa.org):
- FILM FOCUS on Lenny Abrahamson’s GARAGE, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Edward Guiney (Element Pictures, IRL) and co-financed by Bord Scannán na hÉireann / the Irish Film Board, Film4, RTÉ and the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland.
http://www.cineuropa.org/ffocus.aspx?lang=en&documentID=81345&treeID=1464
- FILM FOCUS on BEN X by Nic Balthazar, co-produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
http://www.cineuropa.org/ffocus.aspx?lang=en&documentID=82936&treeID=1499
- The MAKING OF DUNYA & DESIE by Dana Nechushtan, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit and company Lemming Film (NL).
http://www.cineuropa.org/making.aspx?lang=en&documentID=2004

EAVE 2005 graduate London-based producer Kirsty Peart has joined the team at VOD Almighty – the latest VOD site incorporating an online film community: going global, supporting local, celebrating the independent. Launching Cannes 2008. We are seeking COUNTRY AGENTS. VOD Almighty is in the business of creating a community and serving that community with film, tv shows and documentaries.  We take the best of what is local and make it global – on demand, available to watch now – no download time, no player required: simply streaming to you, your friends and the VOD Almighty global community. Set up by independent film-makers feeling bullied by the global domination of Hollywood with concern that the big boys and corporations are muscling in, establishing control online and eradicating the democracy of the internet. If you want change – not any change, but a positive and powerful change in the way we see our entertainment, then join our community – or even better become a COUNTRY AGENT. We are building a global network of VOD Agents to source from their territories the best films and to be a real point of contact and information both to local and global film-makers – both online and offline.  You would need to be well-connected within your local film industry particularly with sales agents, distributors, producers and festivals; have a solid understanding of the industry itself on a global level; preferably have good contacts with film magazines and local press etc; a knowledge of local festivals and markets (with connections to them); and ideally contacts in local advertising and marketing businesses. In return, we would offer you a % of revenue from both the films and visual product you bring to the site and any advertising you attach to your local pages.
We believe in the intelligence and innovation of the independent film community. 50% a movement; 50% entertainment. 100% VOD Almighty.
If this sounds like a job for you – then please contact info@vodalmighty.com
www.vodalmighty.com

Watch out for our upcoming newsletter with
special focus on Festivals & Markets in March 2008!!

The EAVE Programme is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Film Fund Luxembourg, the Nordic Baltic Film Fund, Filmfonds Wien, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, MFG-Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, Skillset, Berlinale Co-production Market and the partners who have hosted the workshops since 1988.


EAVE – Workshop 1 2008 in Luxembourg

EAVE is pleased to announce that the Hotel Hilton Luxembourg will be the location of the upcoming first EAVE workshop in 2008 from March, 7 - 14 in partnership with the Film Fund Luxembourg.

At this first workshop dedicated to Development, 52 producers (of which 30 are participating with a production project), 17 scriptwriters from 27 different European countries will be taking part.

The multinational EAVE pedagogical team is composed of EAVE Chief Executive/Head of Studies Alan Fountain (UK), the four group leaders, all active, experienced producers, Danny Krausz (DOR Film, A), Lise Lense-Møller (Magic Hour Films, DK), Peter Rommel (Rommel Film, D), Patrick Sobelman (Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, F); the script consultants Jacques Akchoti (F), Martin Daniel (USA), Clare Downs (Forever Films, UK), and documentary expert Sylvia Stevens (Faction Films, UK). They are supported by the specialised experts for Pitching: Sibylle Kurz (D), Finance: Linda Beath (Ideal Filmworks, I), Marketing: Fiona Mitchell (Migrations, UK) and Legal Issues: Roberto Olla (Eurimages, EU), who share their expertise in plenary and group work sessions and individual meetings with the EAVE participants.

Individual meetings with the script analysts, case studies on international co-productions, a special session dedicated to documentary film production and panels will complement the schedule:

German producer and EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad (Flying Moon, D) will give insight into the production process of the recently completed feature THE MARKET, a black comedy by Bob Hopkins, co-produced between Germany and Turkey (EAVE 2006 graduate Ceyda Tufan).

Danish Film editor Niels Pagh Andersen will present a case study and analysis of the structure of Emmy nominated documentary PROSTITUTION BEHIND THE VEIL by Nahid Persson (Winner of The Grand Prix of Krakow, One world award, Krystallen, Guldbaggen).

In addition, Thibaut Bracq will present in a special session PARIS PROJECTS, the co-production platform for international projects looking for French partners. In the framework EAVE’s partnership with PARIS PROJECTS,  2 EAVE projects of the current year are selected every year to take part in PARIS PROJECTS.
 
Last but by no means least, Guy Daleiden from the Film Fund Luxembourg introduces the Luxembourg Tax Scheme and film production aspects of Luxembourg. EAVE is very proud to realise this first workshop in partnership with the Film Fund Luxembourg for the fourth year now. 

EAVE expresses special gratitude for the support of Workshop 1 to:
FORTUNA Banque, Broadcasting Center Europe, MEDIA Desk Luxembourg, Luxembourg City Tourist Office, Hilton Hotel Luxembourg.

EAVE NEWSFLASH – 3 Oscars for EAVE producers!

At the 80th ACADEMY AWARDS award ceremony, 3 films produced by EAVE graduates have received one of the prestigious trophies:
 
*** THE COUNTERFEITERS by Stefan Ruzowitzky, co-produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer, won the Best Foreign Language Film award
 
*** PETER AND THE WOLF, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Hugh Welchman, was awarded Best Animated Short Film
 
*** Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova winning Best Song ("Falling Slowly") for Irish film ONCE by John Carney, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland
 
www.oscars.org

EAVE AT THE BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2008

EAVE proudly announces the strong presence of EAVE projects and producers at this year´s 58th edition of the Berlin Film Festival in the official and sidebar sections, in the jury and at the market: 3 films in competition, 15 films in sidebar sections, 7 projects at the different sections of the Berlinale Co-Production Market, plus other events and screenings!

IN COMPETITION
- RESTLESS by Amos Kollek, co-producers: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum (Entre Chien et Loup, B), EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye (Liaison cinématographique, F)
- BLACK ICE by Petri Kotwica, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Karle Aho, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Leander Carell (SCHMIDTZ KATZE FILMKOLLEKTIV, D)
- FEUERHERZ by Luigi Falorni, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer (Aichholzer Film, AT)
- JULIA by Erick Zonca, co-producer: EAVE 1989 graduate Hubert Toint (Saga Films, BE)

PANORAMA
- I AM FROM TITOV VELES, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Labina Mitevska (Macedonia), co-producers: EAVE 2005 graduate Setareh Farsi, EAVE 1994 graduate Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye
- LOVE AND OTHER CRIMES by Stefan Arsenijevic, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Miroslav Mogorovic (Serbia & Montenegro) co-producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder, EAVE 2007 graduate Nikolaj Nikitin
- LEMON TREE, co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina Brokemper)
- WHAT NO ONE KNOWS by Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, co-prod.: EAVE 2002 graduate Helena Danielsson (S)

FORUM
- LEO by Josef Fares, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Anna Anthony (SE)
- NACHT VOR AUGEN by Brigitte Bertele, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (D)
- CORRIDOR #8 by Boris Despodov, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel (First Hand Films)
- BRIDES OF ALLAH by Natalie Assouline, sales: EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel

GENERATION KPLUS
- WHERE IS WINKY'S HORSE? by Mischa Kamp, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal (NL)

GENERATION KPLUS SHORT FILMS
- NEW BOY by Steph Green, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Tamara Anghie (IRL)

GENERATION 14PLUS
- 32A by Marian Quinn, producers: EAVE 2003 graduate Tommy Weir (IRL), EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad (D), distributor: EAVE 2003 graduate Andreas Rothbauer (BetaCinema, D)
- BEN X by Nic Balthazar, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal (NL)
- DUNY & DESIE by Dana Nechushtan, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit´s company Lemming Film (producer: Joost de Vries)

PERSPEKTIVE DEUTSCHES KINO
- FOOTBALL UNDER COVER, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad, EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers, EAVE 2006 graduate Patrick Merkle (Flying Moon, D). - THE THINGS BETWEEN US, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Melanie Andernach

GERMAN CINEMA
- GEGENÜBER, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Matthias Krause´s company Heimatfilm (producer: Bettina Brokemper)

BERLINALE CO-PRODUCTION MARKET
- OUTSKIRTS, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Daniel Burlac (RO)

ROTTERDAM BERLINALE EXPRESS
- RHAPSODY, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Paul Donovan (IRL)
- AURORA, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Dan Wechsler (CH)

TALENT PROJECT MARKET
- EAVE 2007 project CARRIBEAN CHRONICLES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Jean des Forets (F)
- EAVE 2007 project TONY TEN, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Marleen Slot (NL)
- BETWEEN TWO FIRES, p: EAVE 1991 graduate and Swedish National Coordinator Peter Kropenin (S)
- THE SCREAM OF THE BUTTERFLY, co-producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Karle Aho

INITIALIZE PRODUCERS´S LAB
- EAVE 2007 participant Justin Kelly and project THE SWING OF THINGS
- EAVE 2003 graduate Samm Hailley and project YOUNG
- EAVE 2000 graduate Paul Largan and project THE UNDEFENDED
- EAVE 2006 graduate Anne Beresford and project STELLA

EUROPEAN FILM MARKET SCREENINGS
- THE GOLDEN NAZI VAMPIRE OF ABSAM, PART 2‚ -THE SECRET OF KOTTLITZ CASTLE, co-producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Damien Donnelly, EFM (14.2., 9h30, CinemaxX 17)
- COLD WAVES, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon,EFM (9.2., 11h30 @ Arsenal 2 and 10.2., 9h00 @ CinemaxX Studio 15), sales agent: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges - ÜBER WASSER, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and Austrian National Coordinator Erich Lackner and EAVE 2003 graduate Anne Schroeder, sales agent: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges - SUNNY´S TIME NOW, producer/sales agent: EAVE 1991 graduate Paul Thiltges
- Slovakian Oscar entry RETURN OF THE STORKS, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Robert Malzahn (14.2., 15h45, CinemaxX 16)
- THE OTHER POSSIBILITY by Ashley Horner, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Michael Mitchell (dffb - kino, 10.02 at 14h)
- PLAYING SOLO, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nina Koljonen (CinemaxX 11: 13.2., 11h and 14.2., 15h)

FRESH PROJECTS
EAVE 1990 graduate Saskia Sutton from Losky Films UK is attending the Berlinale with 3 of her film project s development funded by UK´s Screen West Midlands: THE SEARCH by Hugh Stoddart about a young Englishwoman´s search for her German father who has gone missing. She is looking for German co-production partners. NOISE is a drama written by Alex Jones based on his successful stage play both in the UK and LA. YUMMY MUMMY is a feel-good dark comedy written by Saskia Sutton.
More info: www.loskyfilms.co.uk, ssutton @ dircon.co.uk, +447976296419.

BERLINALE JURIES
EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon will be part of the jury for the international short film competition.

SPECIAL EVENTS
To commemorate the death of Prof. Willy Sommerfeld, the last original silent movie pianist from the 20s, who died in December at the age of 103, there will be a Film-Music Gala on Sunday, February 10nd 2008, 7:00 pm, at the ufaFabrik, Viktoriastr. 10-18, 12105 Berlin, U-6, station: Ullsteinstrasse. The evening will be opened by a screening of the internationally acclaimed movie THE SOUNDS OF SILENTS (2006) by EAVE 1995 graduate Ilona Ziok, which was rated a "filmhistorical sensation" by the FBW, loved by critics and public alike. The movie depicts the life of Prof. Willy Sommerfeld and features "the man at the piano". Then, Manuel Göttsching "the man on electronics" takes over, performing live to F.W. Murnau´s silent movie THE HOUNTED CASTEL (Schloss Vogelöd, 1921). Afterwards, the public is invited to toast to the memory of Prof. Willy Sommerfeld! www.ashra.com

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MEET EAVE IN BERLIN
EAVE corner at the Berlinale Co-production Market: February, 11-13
EAVE at the MEDIA stand 23 (Central Hall) of the EFM: February 9-13
Alan Fountain, CEO: +44 77 67 37 14 78
Tina Trapp, Deputy CEO: +352 661 50 55 26
Esther Krausz, Workshop Manager: +352 661 50 55 28
Silke Schönfelder, Programme Manager EAVE Plus: +352 661 50 55 33

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EAVE NEWS FESTIVALS & MARKETS in January 2008

HIGHLIGHTS:
*** ABSURDISTAN in international competition in SUNDANCE
*** EL CIELO, LA TERRA Y LA LLUVIA competing for Rotterdam Tiger Awards

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INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

EAVE is proud to be partner of CineMart, the famous international co-production market of the Rotterdam International Film Festival.

EAVE PRODUCERS AND FILMS AT THE FESTIVAL:
VPRO TIGER AWARDS COMPETITION
EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau,
co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
TIME AND TIDE
- L’ORA DI PUNTA, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Tilde Corsi
- HAPPY DESERT, producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski
STURM UND DRANG
- AUTUMN BALL, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
- THE MOURNING FOREST, associate producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute
- EL OTRO, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute
- SMALL GODS, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Peter de Maegd
- WHO IS AFRAID OF CATHY ACKER?, co-producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Markus Fischer
CINEMA OF THE WORLD: TIME AND TIDE
- THE REVUE, co-producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert
- DUST, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Heino Deckert, co-producer: EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Schweizer
ROBECO FILMDAG
- ANCHE LIBERO VA BENE, producer: EAVE 1990 graduate Giorgio Magliulo
SHORTS – AS LONG AS IT TAKES
Short film ACASA by Paul Negoescu, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon

EAVE PRODUCERS SELECTED FOR CINEMART:
- ERRORS OF THE HUMAN BODY, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter (D)
- FOR LOVE WITH BEST INTENTIONS, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Adriana Solomon (RO)
- RHAPSODY, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Paul Donovan (IRL)
- AURORA, co-producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Dan Wechsler (CH)
- HUMAN RACE, producer: EAVE 2008 participant Femke Wolting (NL)

EAVE PRODUCERS AT THE ROTTERDAM LAB:
2 EAVE 2006 graduates will participate at the Rotterdam Lab to continue building up their international network & experience at this international festival and market: Oliver Röpke (AngstKino, D) and Jonas Dornbach (Kinoherz, D). Also participating: EAVE 2007 graduate Isabelle Truc (Iota Production, B), EAVE 2007 graduate Marleen Slot (Lemming Film), EAVE 2008 participant Melanie Andernach (Made in Germany, D), EAVE 2008 participant Ellen de Waele (Serendipity Films, B).

MEET EAVE AT CINEMART:
EAVE CEO Alan Fountain and Deputy CEO Tina Trapp will be attending CineMart to meet interested producers and inform about the programme.
Alan Fountain: +44 77 67 37 14 78; Tina Trapp: +352 661 50 55 26

SUNDANCE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

GOTHENBURG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

MAX OPHUELS FILM FESTIVAL SAARBRUECKEN

SOLOTHURN FILM FESTIVAL

OTHER FESTIVALS

REINE GESCHMACKSACHE by Ingo Rasper, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (noirfilm, D) has been presented in the framework of the BERLIN & BEYOND festival in San Francisco.
www.noirfilm.de

FRAULEIN by Andrea Staka, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Susann Rüdlinger, has been selected for the International Film Weekend in Würzburg (Germany).
www.filmwochenende.de

Documentary AWAITING FOR MAN by Katy Ndiaye has been selected in competition for the upcoming Festival International des Programmes Audiovisuels (FIPA) in Biarritz.
www.fipa.tm.fr/fr/

Short film ALEXANDRA by Radu Jude, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Adriana Solomon (Hi Film, RO) has been selected in competition at the Clermont Ferrand Short Film Festival.
Also selected for Clermont Ferrand is L’ENFANT BORNE by Pascal Mieszala, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Aurélie Bordier (Les Enragés, F). The film has just received the Award for Best Script at the Festival of Villeurbanne and the Award of the Press at the Festival of Pontault-Combault.
www.hifilm.ro / www.lesenrages.com

Documentary COLD WAVES by Alexandru Solomon, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Adriana Solomon (Hi Film, RO) has been selected for the Alpe Adria Trieste Festival.
www.hifilm.ro

IT HAPPENED JUST BEFORE by Anja Salomonowitz, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder has been selected for the Festival Premiers Plans in Angers (F).
www.premiersplans.org

Watch out for our upcoming newsletter with
special focus on the BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2008!!

EAVE NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2008

HIGHLIGHTS:
*** AUTUMN BALL Autumn Ball takes top prize in Marrakech
*** Top Awards for 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS
*** Special Opportunities for EAVE graduates: Sofia Meetings, B2B Belgrade
*** EAVE and STRATEGICS merge

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IN DEVELOPMENT/PRE-PRODUCTION

EURIMAGES
In its latest round of development support, EURIMAGES has awarded funding to 6 EAVE producers and their companies:
- DESERT FLOWER by Sherry Hormann, co-produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz (DOR Film, AT): 500.000 Euros
- MAX MANUS by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning, co-produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Rudi Teichmann (B & T Film GmbH, D): 580.000 Euros
- OCCI VS. THE WORLD by Conor McDermottroe, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate and Irish National Coordinator Edwina Forkin (Zanzibar Films, IRL): 280.000 Euros
- LA CHANTEUSE DE TANGO by Diego Martinez Vignatti. produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Tomas Leyers (Minds Meet, BE) together with Tarantula (BE): 230.000 Euros
- VENTS DE SABLE, FEMMES DE ROC by Nathalie Borgers, produced by EAVE 1994 graduate and Austrian National Coordinator Erich Lackner (Lotus Film, AT) and EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum (Entre Chien et Loup, BE): 230.000 Euros
www.coe.int/eurimages

The Norwegian Film Fund (NFF) has granted a total of NOK43.5m (€5.4m) in production support to three feature films and three TV series, including NOK13.8m (€1.7m) to the ambitious, epic WWII movie MAX MANUS by Espen Sandberg and Joachim Ronning, produced by John M. Jacobsen (PATHFINDER) and Sveinung Golimo for Filmkameratene (NO) and co-produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Rudi Teichmann (B & T Film GmbH, D). Principal photography will start on February 12, 2008 and Nordisk Film will handle domestic distribution.
www.bt-film.de

The casting of AUTONAUTS ON THE COSMOROUTE by Werner Penzel, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan (LESFILMSDUPRESENT, F), is now confirmed: Koji Yakusho (BABEL, KAIRO, EUREKA, THE EEL) and Sabine Timoteo (DAS VATERSPIEL, PEPPERMINTA, DIE FREUNDE DER FREUNDE, LOVE-MONEY-LOVE). The shooting will be spring 2009. The project that has been presented at last year’s Berlinale Co-Production Market has just won the FONDATION GROUPAMA GAN POUR LE CINEMA PRIZE 2007.
www.lesfilmsdupresent.fr

EAVE 2007 project FIRST OF ALL, FELICIA written by Melissa de Raaf and Razvan Radulescu and produced by EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon (Hi Film, RO) has been supported by the Romanian CNC with an amount of almost 270.000 euros.
www.hifilm.ro

For its part, the first CNC board for advances on receipts selected five screenplays for debut features, including LES GENS NE SAVENT PAS PEUT-ETRE by Roland Edzard (produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and French National Coordinator Philippe Avril, Unlimited, F).
www.unlimited-films.net

IN PRODUCTION

Following her acclaimed feature debut, SOMEONE ELSE’S HAPPINESS, chosen to represent Belgium at the Oscars, young Belgian director Fien Troch began work on her second feature under the best auspices. Her screenplay THE UNSPOKEN, selected for Rotterdam’s Cinemart, was included in the Residence section at the Cannes Film Festival and received funding from Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds (VAF). Shooting for the film began at the beginning of December in Brussels and is set to continue until the end of January. THE UNSPOKEN is produced by Prime Time and co-produced by Versus Production (EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart), Ryva and Motel Films (NL), with the financial support of the Belgian Federal Government Tax Shelter through Inver Invest. It received production grants from the VAF and the Centre du Cinéma et de l’Audiovisuel de la Communauté française, as well as support from the Nederlands Fonds voor de Film and Wallimage. Sold internationally by Celluloid Dreams, it will be released domestically in spring 2008 by Cinéart-Cinélibre.
www.versus.be

Marina de Van’s DON’T LOOK BACK is currently shooting in Italy, France and Luxembourg. The film is by Agat Films/Ex-Nihilo (EAVE Group Leader Patrick Sobelman, FR), in co-production with Samsa Film (EAVE President and 1992 graduate Jani Thiltges), Studio Urania (IT) and Entre Chien et Loup (EAVE 1994 graduate and Group Leader Diana Elbaum, EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye, BE). Main cast are Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci.
www.samsa.lu / www.entrechienetloup.be

IN POST-PRODUCTION

The European animated feature film NIKO & THE WAY TO THE STARS, co-directed by Finland’s Kari Juusonen and Denmark’s Michael Hegner and produced by EAVE 1994 graduate Hannu Tuomainen (head of Finnish production company Cinemaker), has just been pre-sold by Telepool to The Weinstein Company for all English-language territories and Latin America. A record 100 distribution deals have already been signed on the 3D animated film, including Universum in Germany and Filmax in Spain. The Finnish premiere through Nordisk Film Distribution is set for October 10, 2008. The €6.1m film is produced by Tuomainen and fellow Finn Pettri Pasanen (Anima Vitae) in co-production with A Film (DK), Ulysses (D) and Magma Film (IRL). An overall 22 financiers were involved in the project, including the Finnish Film Foundation, Hamburg Film Fund, Danish Film Institute, Irish Film Board, Nordisk Film & TV Fond, Eurimages, YLE, TV2 Denkmark and ZDF.
The animation work on the film will be finished in January. The final mix will start in May and the first print will be available in June 2008. Telepool will organise a marketing presentation for all the distributors at the upcoming Berlinale.
www.cinemaker.fi

Documentary BÉLA BARTÓK UND DIE VOLKSMUSIK SIEBENBÜRGENS by Jan Lorenzen, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs (Hoferichter & Jacobs, D) is currently in post-production.
www.hoferichterjacobs.de

CURRENTLY PLAYING

COMRADES IN DREAMS by Uli Gaulke, produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers is playing in German cinemas since January 3.
www.flyingmoon.com

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS by Cristian Mungiu, associated produced by EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril and EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac has been released in the UK on January 4.
www.mobrafilms.ro

Lenny Abrahamson's second feature GARAGE, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Edward Guiney (Element Pictures, IRL), is playing in France since January 9.
www.elementfilms.ie

John Carney’s musical comedy ONCE, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland (Samson Films, IRL), has been released in Germany on January 17.
www.samsonfilms.com

SMALL GODS by Dimitri Karakatsanis, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Peter de Maegd (Potemkino, B) in co-production with Kanibal Films, is coming to cinemas in Belgium on January 23.
www.potemkino.be

Documentary OUR DAILY BREAD by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, produced by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Markus Glaser, Wolfgang Widerhofer and EAVE 2006 graduate Michael Kitzberger (Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion, AT) will be released in the UK on January 25.
www.geyrhalterfilm.com

BOX OFFICE

Sam Gabarski’s IRINA PALM, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye (Entre Chien et Loup, BE) and co-produced by EAVE 1992 graduate & EAVE president Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L), EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson (Ipso Facto, UK), distributed by Teodora on only 30 screens, snagged tenth place at the Italian box office with €110,208, and fifth place with respect to per screen average (€2,755).
www.entrechienetloup.be

Local hit of the season in Holland was WHERE IS WINKY’S HORSE, the follow-up to Mischa Kamp’s WINKY’S HORSE. The film was again written by Tamara Bos and has achieved excellent results, clocking up over €2.2 million in tickets sales since its release nine weeks ago. Like its predecessor, it stars Flemish veteran actor Jan Decleir in a key role and was produced by Bos Bros (EAVE 2002 graduate Sabine Veenendaal) and released by the Dutch arm of Warner Bros.
www.bosbros.nl

SALES

HORSE THIEVES, the debut feature by Micha Wald, lauded at the 2007 Cannes Critics’ Week, has been bought for US distribution by Picture This! Entertainment from French sales agent Rezo Films. The film is set to be released under the title of IN THE ARMS OF MY ENEMY. Distribution rights have also been bought for Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam and Bahrain; and in Europe, for Spain, Poland, Greece (Seven Media) and Cyprus.
Wald is currently working on her second feature, SIMON KONIANSKI, which catches up with one of the characters from her multiple award-winning short film ALICE ET MOI. Produced once again by Versus (EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart), in co-production with Spain (Juan Miranda Producciones) and France (Noodles Production), shooting on this second film is set to begin at the start of summer 2008.
www.versus.be

ON TV

Documentary series THE POWER OF KNOWLEGDE - EUROPE'S GREAT UNIVERSITIES starring Armin Mueller-Stahl and produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs (Hoferichter & Jacobs, D) is broadcast since January 2 on 3sat.
www.hoferichterjacobs.de

DVD RELEASES

Berlinale Teddy Jury Award winner COMBAT by Patrick Carpentier, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Geneviève De Bauw (Thank You & Good Night productions, B) has now been released on DVD.
www.dvdoc.be

VALERIE by Birgit Möller, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Susann Schimk (credo:film, D) is now available on DVD since January 18!
www.credofilm.de

NOMINATIONS

PRESELECTED FOR THE GERMAN FILM AWARD NOMINATIONS
- ABSURDISTAN, director/producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Veit Helmer (category: Best Feature, Best Camera, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Soundtrack)
- VALERIE, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Susann Schimk (category: Best Feature, Best Female Actress, Best Costume Design, Best Script, Best Director)
- COMRADES IN DREAMS, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers (category: Best Documentary)
- BLACK BOOK, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer (category: Best Female Actress, Best Male Supporting Actor, Best Camera, Best Editing, Best Production Design, Best Costume Design, Best Soundtrack, Best Sound Design, Best Director)
- HOUNDS, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Susann Schimk (category: Best Female Supporting Actress, Best Sound Design)
- VIVERE, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Raymond van der Kaaij (category: Best Camera)
- ECHOES OF HOME, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Brigitte Hofer (category: Best Sound Design)
The nominees will be announced on March 28.
www.deutsche-filmakademie.de

NOMINATIONS FOR THE IRISH FILM AND TELEVISION AWARDS
- KINGS, co-producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Michael Casey: Best Film, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Costume Design, Best DOP, Best Editing, Best Hair and Makeup, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Sound
- GARAGE, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Edward Guiney: Best Film, Best Director, Best Script, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best DOP, Best Editing, Best Original Score, Best Production Design, Best Sound
- SHROOMS, producer: EAVE 1993 graduate Robert Walpole: Best Film, Best Director,
www.ifta.ie

NOMINATIONS FOR THE FINNISH JUSSIS (FINNISH OSCARS)
- PLAYING SOLO, producer: EAVE 2006 graduate Nina Koljonen, category: Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress
- BLACK ICE, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Karle Aho, category: Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actress, Best DOP, Best Editing
- THE BORDER, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Jarkko Hentula, category: Best Supporting Actor, Best Sound
- GANES, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate and EAVE Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy category: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Set Design, Best Costume Design
www.jussit.fi

NOMINATIONS FOR THE CRITIC’S CHOICE AWARDS
- Best Foreign Film: 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
- Best Song: "Falling Slowly", Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova – ONCE, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland
www.bfca.org/NomineesWinners.asp

THIS IS ENGLAND by Shane Meadows, executive produced by EAVE 1997 graduate Peter Carlton, has been nominated for the BAFTAS in the categories Best Original Screenplay and Best British Film. The winners will be announced on February 10.
www.bafta.org

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS by Cristian Mungiu, associate produced by EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac has been nominated for a Danish Bodil (Danish Oscar) in the category Best Foreign Film.
www.filmkritik.dk

ES KOMMT DER TAG written by Susanne Schneider and produced by EAVE 2008 participant Sabine Holtgreve (Wüste Film Ost) in co-production with Filmtank Stuttgart and SWRWDR/arte has been nominated fort he Thomas Strittmatter Script Award of the MFG-Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg. The award ceremony will take during the Berlin Film Festival on February 13.

THE HAPPIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD by Radu Jude and produced by EAVE 2007 graduate and Romanian National Coordinator Ada Solomon (Hi Film, RO) has been nominated for the final of the NHK Sundance Awards.
www.hifilm.ro

HESITATION, directed by EAVE 2005 graduate Virginia Gilbert, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Julien Berlan, and executive produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Rebekah Wray-Rogers has been nominated at the BAFTA and the IFTA in the short film category. The ceremonies will be held respectively the 10th of February in London and the 17th of February in Dublin.

Nominated for the Swedish Oscars / Guldbagge Award in the category Best Film and Best Male Actor is LEO, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Anna Anthony. Nominated in the category Best Foreign Film are 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac and THIS IS ENGLAND, executive producer: EAVE 1997 graduate Peter Carlton. The award ceremony will take place on January 22.
www.sfi.se

AWARDS

AUTUMN BALL by Veiko Ounpuu, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa (Kuukulgur Film, EE) took the top prize at 7th Marrakech festival.
www.kuukulgur.ee

4 MONTHS, 3 DAYS AND 2 WEEKS by Romanian director Christian Mungiu continues to reap success, which began with last year's Golden Palm at Cannes and was followed up with numerous other prizes. The National Society of Film Critics, made up of America’s most influential critics, presented the Mobra Films/Saga Film production with the Best Foreign Film Award. The film was associate produced by EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril and EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac.
www.mobrafilms.ro

The FIPRESCI critic’s award 2007 for Best Actress went ex aequo to Anamaria Marinca and Laura Vasiliu for their performance in 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate produced by EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac.
www.mobrafilms.ro

GARAGE by Lenny Abrahamson, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney (Element Film, IRL), has been awarded Best Feature at the prestigious 25th Turin Film Festival, receiving a cash prize of €25,000.
www.elementfilms.ie

John Carney’s ONCE, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland (Samson Films, IRL), has scooped the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA) prize for Best Soundtrack. ONCE is a modern-day musical set on the streets of Dublin, telling the story of a busker and an immigrant, who fall in love over an eventful week as they write, rehearse and record a number of songs. The film has picked up several prizes including the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival and the Best Foreign Film award at the Raindance Festival, London.
The musical comedy is also in line for two awards at the 50th annual Grammy Awards, 2008, being nominated for Best Compilation Soundtrack as well as Best Song for the track ‘Falling Slowly’. The awards will be presented on February 10th, 2008, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles.
www.samsonfilms.com

The Grand Prix: Muhr d’Or du documentaire of the Dubai International Film Festival 2007 went to MADE IN EGYPT by Karim Goury, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Marie Gutman (Méroé Films, F) and co-produced by INA and Images Plus, with support of the region DRAC Champagne–Ardenne, winner of the Louis Lumière scholarship. Pre-sold to TV5 Monde.
meroe-films@wanadoo.fr

The Bavarian Film Award for Best Male Actor went to Jürgen Vogel for his performance in EMMA’S BLISS by Sven Taddicken, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel (Wüste Film, D).
www.wuestefilm.de

THREE GIRLS by Murad Ibragimbekov, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs (Hoferichter & Jacobs, D) has been awarded the Grand Prix and the Award for Best Female Actress and Best Film Music at the International Festival of the Commonwealth and Baltic countries 'New Films - 21st century' " in Nizhni Novgorod. The film has also received the award for Best DOP and the special award of the Filmmaker’s Guild at the International Film Festival Listapad.
www.hoferichterjacobs.de

JANUARY SPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS

EAVE and STRATEGICS merge
From January 2008 EAVE and STRATEGICS have merged thus combining their unique experience in professional media training. Both programmes have been very strongly supported by Film Fund Luxembourg for several years which has enabled Luxembourg to take a high profile as a significant centre of European professional media training. Following the merger of the two organisations, STRATEGICS’ well known and successful Film Finance Forum and Marketing Workshop will be managed by EAVE.

STRATEGICS was the brain child of Christian Kmiotek and began its film training programme for European film professionals in film marketing in 1993 and established the Film Finance Forum in 2002. The EAVE and STRATEGICS pedagogical and management teams will come together to continue these high quality programmes. Christian Kmiotek and John Durie, Heads of Studies, and Danny Leyder, Training Developer, will join the EAVE management team.

The Film Finance Forum, which will take place in Luxembourg from 4-6 April 2008, concentrates on European co-productions, financing and tax-driven programmes and will deliver an update on the latest financial techniques and European funding schemes.

During the Film Marketing Workshop, which will be held in Luxembourg from 4-7 December 2008, selected film professionals will develop their film marketing skills and work on the marketing strategy for their own film projects through private tutorials and plenary sessions with top industry experts.

For more information please contact EAVE Plus Programme Manager Silke Schönfelder (silke@eave.org) or Danny Leyder (danny@eave.org).

Competiion for UK’s Biggest Film Production Prize now open!
Moxie Makers - a new micro-studio based in the UK, managed by EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson and her production company Ipso Facto Films - have launched the UK’s biggest feature film production prize - worth up to £250,000. The call is open for anyone with an idea for a micro-budget feature film in the UK film industry and beyond.

After the application and interview process eight feature film projects will be invited onto The Big Pitch training programme, supported by Skillset, including a four-day intensive induction and development workshop. During the four-month project and pitch development stage the six remaining teams will work with industry professionals to develop and package their project.
After that the six teams will be invited to The Big Pitch event where they will sell their feature film ideas before a live audience at Northern Lights Film Festival 2008.

The winner will be guaranteed production finance from Moxie Makers which includes a post-production deal with Molinare, guaranteed UK distribution with Soda Pictures and international sales representation with Moviehouse Entertainment. The film will receive its red-carpet Gala Premiere as part of Northern Lights Film Festival in 2009.

The Big Pitch is now open for entries and Moxie Makers want to encourage anyone with a micro-budget feature film idea to apply! The closing date for applications is 22nd February 2008.
Go to www.moxiemakers.com/training or contact Ed Barratt (ed@ipsofactofilms.com)

CINEUROPA Film Focus
This month on CINEUROPA: Film Focus on GARAGE by Lenny Abrahamson, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Edward Guiney (Element Pictures, IRL).
http://www.cineuropa.org/ffocus.aspx?lang=en&documentID=81345&treeID=1464

Sofia Meetings
EAVE is delighted to be partner of the 5th Sofia Meetings taking place from March 13-16, 2008 within the framework of the Sofia International Film Festival.
Sofia Meetings has two separate modules:
• Second Films Pitching – presentation of European second feature film projects looking for financial support and realization;
• Balkan Films Showcase – screenings of the latest Bulgarian and Balkan films for directors and programmers from different international festivals.
The aim of Sofia Meetings is to promote new projects of young European filmmakers and new films from Bulgaria and the Balkan region to European film festivals and distributors.
Thanks to our partnership with Sofia Meetings, we are able to offer 6 EAVE graduates privileged access in order to meet regional filmmakers and their projects. The selected producers will be invited by the festival (accommodation and accreditation). In addition, 3 EAVE 2007 projects will be presented at the Second Films Pitching.
www.cinema.bg/sff/sofiameetings

B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings
EAVE is proud to be partner of the third edition of the B2B Belgrade Industry meetings taking place from February 29 - March 2, 2008 in Belgrade.
The B2B Belgrade Industry Meetings focus on cinematography of the “Europe out of Europe” countries. Feature film projects in development can be submitted to B2B from countries with the origin geographically in Europe, but are still not enough intensely included in European integrative currents, and also from countries outside Europe with strong European influence and heritage: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Georgia, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Serbia, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.
B2B is the gathering place for directors, producers, financiers, exhibitors, distributors, representatives of film institutions from the above mentioned countries, together with representatives of film funds and production companies from Western Europe.
2 EAVE graduates have the unique possibility to be invited to the Belgrade B2B industry meetings in order to meet regional filmmakers and their projects (accreditation and accommodation plus travel costs up to 250 euros).
www.fest.org.yu/2008/s/b2b

Buenos Aires Lab
EAVE is proud to be partner of BAL (BUENOS AIRES LAB), during the 10th Buenos Aires International Film Festival (BAFICI). BAL is a co-production market for Latin American independent film projects. During 3 days, one-to-one meetings and a work in progress section will be organised. Around 25 projects will be selected. It will be held from April 11-13, 2008.
Projects that have been presented on previous editions of BAL are, among others:
ESTRELLAS by Federico León y Marcos Martínez (Argentina)
UNA NOVIA ERRANTE by Ana Katz (Argentina)
CAMA ADENTRO by Jorge Gaggero (Argentina)
UNA SEMANA SOLOS by Celina Murga (Argentina)
HAMACA PARAGUA by Paz Encina (Paraguay)
EL CUSTODIO by Manolo Nieto (Uruguay), producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau
EL CIELO, LA TIERRA Y LA LLUVIA by José Luis Torres Leiva (Chile), producer: Elise Jalladeau, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
LOS MUERTOS by Lisandro Alonso (Argentina), p: EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli
LA PERRERA by Manolo Nieto (Uruguay)
If you are interested in attending the next edition of BAL, please contact Violeta Bava and Ilse Hughan (BAL co-directors): bal@bafici.gov.ar; www.bafici.gov.ar

Watch out for our upcoming newsletters with special focus
on Festivals & Markets in January 2008 and on the Berlinale 2008!!

The EAVE Programme is supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, Film Fund Luxembourg, the Nordic Baltic Film Fund, Filmfonds Wien, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, MFG-Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, Skillset, Berlinale Co-production Market and the partners who have hosted the workshops since 1988.

EAVE – X-Mas NEWS

*** Selection of EAVE participants for 2008 ***
*** Interview with EAVE CEO Alan Fountain on CINEUROPA ***

THE SELECTION FOR 2008:

Out of a record number of applications coming from 30 countries, we are pleased to announce the participants for the EAVE 2008 training programme.
52 producers from 28 European countries have finally been selected for the EAVE 2008 workshops! Out of the selected producers, 29 are bringing a project with them (24 feature films and 5 documentaries).

The 2008 cycle will start off in Luxembourg (L) from March 7-14 with workshop 1 (partner: Film Fund Luxembourg). Workshop 2 will take place in Drogheda (IRL) from June 15-23, in partnership with FAS/Screen Training Ireland and the Louth, Newry & Mourne Film Commission, and the 3rd and final workshop will be organised in Warsaw (PL) from November 17-24 (tbc) with support of the Polish Filmmakers’ Association.

Find below the complete list of 2008 participants:

AUSTRIA
- Oliver Neumann (FreibeuterFilm)
BELGIUM
- Ellen de Waele (Serendipity Films)
- Frédéric Chanteux (Newart Productions)
BOSNIA & HERZEGOVINA
- Amra Baksic Camo (SCCA)
CANADA
- Félize Frappier (Max Films International)
CZECH REPUBLIC
- Martin Posta (Fresh Films)
CROATIA
- Irena Markovic (Focus Media)
DENMARK
- Jesper Jack Jorgensen (Cosmo Doc)
- Ole Tornbjerg (Koncern TV)
- Helle Ulsteen Jensen (Kamoli Films)
- Christian Husum (Phoenix Film Investments)
ESTONIA
- Margus Õunapuu (Film Tower Kuubis)
FINLAND
- Annika Sucksdorff (Helsinki-filmi)
- Mikko Tenhunen (MRP Matila Rohr Productions)
FRANCE
- Alexandre Charlet (Les Films du Cygne)
GERMANY
- Guido Schwab (Ostlicht Filmproduktion)
- Sabine Holtgreve (Wüstefilm OST)
- Dirk Deckert (Riva Filmproduktion)
- Melanie Andernach (Made in Germany)
HUNGARY
- Gergely Fodor (Budapest Film Productions)
- Ferenc Pusztai (Print KMH)
IRELAND
- Nicky Gogan (Still Films)
- Morgan Bushe (Fastnet Films)
- Catherine O’Flaherty (Igloo Productions)
ITALY
- Nicole Mosleh (Limago Filmproduktion)
- Matteo Morozzo (Roma Film)
KOSOVA
- Nehat Fejza (Concordia Pictures)
LATVIA
- Marta Bite (Ego Media)
LUXEMBOURG
- Romain Roll
MACEDONIA
- Labina Mitevska (Sisters and Brother Mitevski)
NETHERLANDS
- Femke Wolting (Submarine)
- Celine Baggen (IDTV Film)
NORWAY
- Guro Saniola Bjerk (Saniola Productions)
POLAND
- Katarzyna Slesicka (Andrzej Wajda School)
- Piotr Mularuk (Yeti Films Ltd.)
- Monika Kaczmarek (Zebra Film Studio)
ROMANIA
- Tudor Giurgiu (Libra Film)
- Marcela Ursu (SC Periscop Pictures)
SERBIA
- Uliks Fehmiu (West End Production)
SLOVENIA
- Jozko Rutar (Staragara)
SPAIN
- Fernanda del Nido (Tic Tac Productions)
- Sergio Garcia de Leaniz Herzog (Pluto Entertainment)
SWEDEN
- Sandra Harms (Breidablick Film)
- Anna Byvald (Silverosa Film)
- Lizette Jonjic (Migma Films)
- Anna Katchko (Maywin Media)
SWITZERLAND
- Tami Berkovits (Dschoint Ventschr)
- Saskia Vischer
UK
- Fiona Campbell (Global Chicken Inc)
- Gethin Scourfield (Gododdin)
- Erinma Ochu
- Chris Taylor (Superkrush Films)

EAVE on CINEUROPA

Now on CINEUROPA: An interview with EAVE Chief Executive Alan Fountain about the EAVE producers 2007, present developments and future challenges for EAVE! To read the complete itv:
http://www.cineuropa.org/interview.aspx?lang=en&documentID=81170

A successful year for EAVE comes to its close.

We are proud of the success of our producers in 2007:
Golden Palm, Best European Film, Best European Director and Hollywood World Award for 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, Venice Orizzonti Award for AUTUMN BALL,
Emmy Award for DEATH OF A PRESIDENT, Sundance Audience Award for ONCE, Academy Award and Golden Globe for THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND,
and many, many more….

WE WISH ALL OUR GRADUATES, COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
AND THANK OUR PARTNERS, DECISION MAKERS, EXPERTS AND PEDAGOGICAL TEAM
FOR THEIR CONTINUING SUPPORT AND COMMITMENT!
THANK YOU!

EAVE NEWS – a successful last workshop 2007 in Prague

The EAVE 2007 Programme came to a close with its 3rd and last workshop held in Prague, Czech Republic (November 19-26), organised in partnership with the Czech Ministry of Culture.

During this final workshop, the 53 participants from 23 European countries had the opportunity to meet some 50 high-profile European professionals from the industry* in over 750 pre-scheduled one-to-one encounters and various informal meetings in order to pitch the 32 projects that were developed during this year’s EAVE training cycle.
(*Please find the complete list of Decision Makers on www.eave.org).

During the debriefing sessions, the Decision Makers expressed their general satisfaction with the high level of professionalism of the EAVE producers and the quality of the projects presented. As Giacomo Lopez, New Cinema Dpt./RAI Cinema, put it: "EAVE is an excellent opportunity to discover players of the future of European cinema and an excellent showcase of European cinema."

Especially the 5 documentary projects, the projects presented by the EAVE participants from Central and South Eastern Europe as well as the 2 Irish projects (THE DEAD SPIT OF KELLY, producer: Ailish McElmeel; LIZZY WALKER SLEPT HERE, producer: John Norton) were very much appreciated.

Various Decision Makers also complimented the outstanding quality of the five Czech projects that have been developed at a special Mini-EAVE session during the year.

EAVE has the pleasure to announce that this workshop ended with some very positive and concrete results for the 2007 graduates:

Among the projects that obtained concrete declarations and letters of interest were for example documentary MIND THE GAP by UK producer Monika Braid, producer Adnan Hadzi (UK) with documentary THE FBI BUG, feature THE WHITE GRASS and French producer Sylvie Brenet, documentary CASH & MARRY produced by Sinisha Juricic (Croatia) and Polish producer Edward Porembny and his feature BEST SERVED COLD.

Other hit projects that aroused everyone’s attention were COME IN by German producer Jonas Dornbach, TONY TEN produced by Marleen Slot (NL) and BLACK IS A COLOR, produced by Dan Wechsler (CH).

EAVE project THE TEMPTATIONS OF ST. TONY by producer Katrin Kissa (SE) was selected on the spot in Prague for the Baltic Event co-production market - congratulations!

And as EAVE is also the ideal platform for networking, several projects found co-producers amongst EAVE colleagues, for example THE MAN WITH 75 LANGUAGES, co-produced by Anne Magnussen (NO) and Susann Schimk (D) and THE TEMPTATIONS OF ST. TONY, co-produced by Katrin Kissa (EE) and Kristina Aberg (SE).

A special EAVE session for local producers with EAVE consultants Linda Beath (Finance & Business Planning), and Fiona Mitchell (Marketing), was organized at the film school FAMU.

EAVE wishes all the 2007 graduates good luck for their future and thanks all the attending decision makers, experts and the pedagogical team for sharing their expertise and experience with the participants.

We also want to express our gratitude to the Czech Ministry of Culture and especially to Helena Frankova for her great support, to EAVE 2004 graduate Ivana Vrbikova for successfully running the workshop, to Jolana Treslova, as well as to Jana Cernik and Marketa Santrochova from the Czech Film Center, and Barbora Ondrejcakova from the Czech MEDIA Desk for contributing to its success.

The EAVE 2007 workshops were supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Union, the Film Fund Luxembourg, Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, the Czech Ministry of Culture, the Nordic Baltic Film Fund, Filmfonds Wien, MFG-Filmförderung Baden-Württemberg, the Berlinale Co-production Market and the partners who have hosted the workshops since 1988.

EAVE is also grateful for additional sponsorship and support for workshop 3 2007 from:
Hotel Andel´s, Barrandov Studios, Film Studio Gatteo, Macwell for technical support.

Many thanks to Czech Film Center and Media Desk Czech Republic for organizing and supporting MINI EAVE where 5 Czech projects were developed under the guidance of EAVE consultants Martin Daniel, Danny Krausz and Sibylle Kurz.

EAVE NEWS – Festivals & Markets in December 2007

Cairo International Film Festival (November 27 – December 7)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
- SEACHD –THE INACCESSIBLE PINNACLE, producer: EAVE 1989 graduate Christopher Young
FESTIVAL OF FESTIVALS
- DARATT, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum
- L’ORA DI PUNTA, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Tilde Corsi
GUEST OF HONOR – BRITISH CINEMA
- THIS IS ENGLAND, executive producer: EAVE 1997 graduate Peter Carlton
NEW ROMANIAN CINEMA
- 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
SPECIAL EVENTS
- THE MAKING OF PARTS, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Samm Hailley
www.cairofilmfest.org

Europa Filmfest Munich

- CASHBACK, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Lene Bausager
- PUFFBALL, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Paul Donovan
- TAXIDERMIA, co-producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder
- ZOZO, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Anna Anthony
www.europafilmfest.de

International Film Festival Bratislava (November 30 – December 7)

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION OF 1ST and 2ND FILMS
- AUTUMN BALL, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
- GARAGE, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Edward Guiney
- SMALL GODS, producer: EAVE 2007 participant Peter de Maegd
MADE IN EUROPE
- 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
GMT
- THE MOURNING FOREST, associate producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute
www.iffbratislava.sk

Baltic Event (December 3-4)

EAVE was delighted to be partner of Baltic Event taking place during the Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn, Estonia, again. Films from Croatia, Romania, Estonia and Armenia were among a dozen projects selected from a record 37 submissions for the Baltic Event's third co-production market which was held from Dec 3-4.

This year's line-up featured 3 projects produced by EAVE graduates:
- THE COLD FRONT IS COMING FROM THE WEST, dir: Tamas Toth (HU), romantic comedy set in Communist Hungary of the 1980s, to be produced by Cor Leonis Films, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Emöke Vagasi
- KOKO AND THE GHOSTS, dir: Daniel Kusan (Croatia), children's film, based on detective novel by popular writer Ivan Kusan, to be produced by Zagreb-based Kinorama, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Ankica Juricic Tilic
- THE TEMPTATIONS OF SAINT TONY, dir: Veiko Ounpuu (EE), black comedy to be produced by Tallinn-based Homeless Bob Production, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
www.poff.ee

Bahamas International Film Festival (December 6-13)
- 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
- MARS AND VENUS, producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Silje Hopland Eik
www.bintlfilmfest.com

Marrakech Film Festival (December 7-15)

IN COMPETITION
- AUTUMN BALL, producer: EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa
- WOLFSBERGEN, producer: EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Rudolf Mestdagh
www.festivalmarrakech.net

Jakarta International Film Festival (December 7-16)

- 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
- ANCHE LIBERO VA BENE, producer: EAVE 1990 graduate Giorgio Magliulo
- COMRADES IN DREAMS, producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers
- EL CUSTODIO, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Elise Jalladeau
- EL OTRO, producer: EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute
- DAYS OF GLORY, proeducer: EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
- ROME RATHER THAN YOU, co-producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers
- SUELY IN THE SKY, co-producer: EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Peter Rommel
www.jiffest.org

OFFLINE: BAGHDAD festival Milan (December 13-16)

EAVE 2005 graduate Albertina Pisano (IT) is organizing OFFLINE: BAGHDAD (not just another film festival) in Milan, Italy, from December 13-16 2007.
Unembedded and unprotected Iraqi filmmakers, journalists and fixers tell firsthand their stories and those of their country to European audiences in Offline: Baghdad (Not Just Another Film Festival). These are not stories from the Green Zone - the center of the heavily protected international community - they are the stories of life in today’s Iraq told directly by Iraqis themselves- they are the missing words and images on Iraq today. Ten film-makers will come to Milan to present their films, attend discussions and Q&A and a one-day workshop with Italian and European producers. Italian and International producers interested in hearing new projects from Iraqi film makers are invited to attend a workshop on December 17th. The workshop will not be a formal pitching session but rather an informal meeting to exchange ideas and start collaborations. It will be an unprecedented opportunity for those film makers to present their new projects to a panel of European Film Producers. The workshop will take place in Milan, December 17th at Casa della Pace, via Ulisse Dini 7. For an overview of the programme and the films and film-makers, please go to www.offlinebaghdad.org

Other festivals in December:

HESITATION, directed by EAVE 2005 graduate Virginia Gilbert, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Julien Berlan, and executive produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Rebekah Wray-Rogers was shown at the following festivals this month: Foyle Film Festival (November 23-December 1) and the Festival tous court Aix-en-Provence (December 3-8).

At the the Filmschau Baden-Württemberg in Stuttgart (Germany), two projects produced by EAVE producers will be presented to the public: COMRADES IN DREAMS by Uli Gaulke (producer: EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers) and REINE GESCHMACKSSACHE by Ingo Rasper (producer: EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski).
www.filmbuero-bw.de

Documentary FELTRINELLI, co-produced by EAVE 1990 graduate Werner Koch (Dschoint Ventschr, CH) was shown at the European Meetings of Documentary Filmmakers “Un Tour d’Europe du Doc” which were being held in the French capital (December 4-8).
http://www.tourdeurope.net/

JABA by Andreas Bölm, produced by Kristina Konrad and EAVE 2005 graduate Ursula Scribano (Weltfilm GmbH, D) in association with pickpocket production and HFF Munich has been shown in the framework of the project FRONTIERES at the 18th Festival des Arts de la Parole en Côtes d’Armor (F).
http://www.oddc22.com/

EAVE NEWSLETTER December 2007

EAVE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:
*** 2 top European Film Awards for 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS ***
*** IDFA and other top awards for EAVE graduates ***
*** Multiple awards for AUTUMN BALL ***
*** EAVE Plus workshop in DUBAI ***
*** Call for submissions for the 5th Sofia Meetings ***

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IN DEVELOPMENT / PRE-PRODUCTION

EAVE 2004 project JUDAS’ TREASURE, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Eleni Atsikbasis (Phos Productions, GR), has recently completed development with the support of MEDIA New Talent and has on board its first production partner, ERT (Hellenic Radio & Television). This latter news was announced at this year’s Thessaloniki International Film Festival. They are now looking for further co-production partners in Europe.
www.phos.gr

IN PRODUCTION

Marina De Van’s latest feature DON’T LOOK BACK, produced by EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman (Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, F) and co-produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L) and EAVE 1994 graduate and group leader Diana Elbaum (Entre Chien et Loup, B) is currently shooting (64 days) since October 22 and until January 25 in Paris, Luxembourg and Italy. The film is starring Sophie Marceau and Monica Bellucci.
www.agatfilms.com

After the first part of the shooting in Luxembourg in October and the shooting in New Zealand, the second part of the shooting in Luxembourg has started on December 4 until December 12 for the film BRIDE FLIGHT by Dutch director Ben Sombogaart. The €6.4m co-production is produced by IDTV Film (NL), EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L) and Dutch broadcaster NCRV.
www.samsa-film.com

IN POST-PRODUCTION

Solveig Anspach’s latest feature BACK SOON, produced by EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman (Agat Films & Cie / Ex Nihilo, F), is currently in postproduction.
International sales will be handled by Bac Films International.
www.agatfilms.com

SCHATTENWELT by Connie Walther, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Michael Jungfleisch (Gambit Film- und Fernsehproduktion, D) is currently editing. The film has been co-produced by Next Film Berlin, ARTE, BR and has been supported by German regional fund MFG, Medienboard Berlin-Brandeburg, BKM and DFFF.
www.gambit-film.de

NACHT VOR AUGEN by Brigitte Bertele, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Boris Michalski (noirfilm, D), co-produced by SWR and supported by MFG, is currently in post-production.
www.noirfilm.de

Japan based EAVE 2002 graduate John Williams' production MIYAINO, a feature film with new director, Tatsuji Yamazaki finished principal photography in November and is currently in post-production. The film tells the tragic story of a Yoshiwara courtesan's torturous love affair with the man who killed the famous painter Sharaku in the late Edo Period.
www.100meterfilms.com

ON SCREEN

SUMMER PALACE by Lou Ze, co-produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers (Flying Moon, D) has opened in Belgium on December 7.
www.flyingmoon.com

EN ATTENDANT LES HOMMES by Katy Léna Ndiaye, produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Aurélien Bodinaux (Neon Rouge, B) premiered on the occasion of the Festival Voix de Femmes on December 7 in Brussels. The documentary was produced by Neon Rouge in cooperation with GCD, OIF/CIRTEF, RTBF and the Commission de sélection des films de la Communauté française de Belgique.
www.neonrouge.com

Playing in Italian cinemas since December 7: IRINA PALM by Sam Gabarski, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye (Entre Chien et Loup, B) in co-production with EAVE 1992 graduate & EAVE president Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L / Liaison Cinématographique, F), EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson (Ipso Facto, UK), and Pallas Film (D).
www.irinapalm-themovie.com

KINGS, the Irish language feature from writer/director Tom Collins is currently playing in Northern Ireland. The award winning film co-produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Michael Casey stars Colm Meaney and is Ireland’s first ever Foreign Language entry to the Oscars.

MANOU GALLO, FEMME DE RYTHME by Jean-Philippe Martin, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Isabelle Truc (Iota Production, B) and EAVE 2007 graduate Serge Guez (Crescendo Films, F) has its premiere on December 19 at 20h at the Ateliers Varan in Paris. The Film was co-produced by RTBF, Cityzen TV, Zig Zag World and Djiboï with the support of the Fonds de Création Musicale of the CNC, Fonds spécial de la Communauté Française de Belgique et des télédistributeurs wallons.
www.crescendofilms.fr / www.iotaproduction.com

THE COUNTERFEITERS by Stefan Ruzowitzky be released in Belgium on December 19.
The film is a German-Austrian co-production between Magnolia Film (DE) and EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer (Aichholzer Film, AT).
www.aifilm.at

PLAYING SOLO, a romantic comedy by Lauri Nurkse, produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Nina Koljonen (MRP Matila Röhr Productions Oy, FI) will be released in Finland on December 28th through Nordisk Film with 42 prints.
www.matilarohr.com

BOX OFFICE HITS

Last weekend’ new opener THE BORDER by Lauri Törhönen, produced by Jörn Donner and EAVE 2003 graduate Jarkko Hentula (Border Production) sold over 12,000 tickets from 46 screens for FS Film. Scripted by EAVE 2002 graduate and Finnish National Coordinator Aleksi Bardy, it is a historical love drama about a soldier who is sent after the Finnish-Russian Civil War to set up the eastern border between Finland and Russia.

TV TOP HITS

ERTRUNKEN VOR MEINEN AUGEN directed and produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Ludger Pfanz and Gülsel Özkan (Planet Film- und Fernsehproduktion, D) has had its TV premiere on German Channel WDR on December 3 at 22h.
www.planet-international.de

DIE UNZERBRECHLICHEN, directed by Dominik Wessely and produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Michael Jungfleisch (Gambit Film- und Fernsehproduktion, D) was shown on ARTE on December 10 at 23h25.
www.gambit-film.de

ON DVD

FULL METAL VILLAGE by Sung-Hyung Cho, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad and EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers (Flying Moon Filmproduktion, D) is now available on DVD since November 23.
www.flyingmoon.com

DVDOC – Documentary Films one click away !

Four independent Belgian producers have decided to act together so that their films will be seen by a wider audience. They have created DVDOC.be, a web-based DVD selling platform, entirely dedicated to documentaries. DVDOC is a catalogue of high-quality films. Documentaries by filmmakers convinced that positioning is fundamental in an increasingly complex world. Directors that develop punching viewpoints and dare to take original visual paths.
DVDOC offers ca. 20 films to start with, mostly in French version, with English subtitles. This catalogue is bound to grow soon, since DVDOC is offering other producers and directors to join the platform and sell their films on it without having to engage duplication or stockpiling fees. DVDOC is also an interactive site with a library of pedagogical dossiers for teachers and associations, information on the “doc’s latest news”, discussion forums for documentary fans, links, events… DVDOC is a joint initiative by EAVE graduate Isabelle Truc (Iota production, B), EAVE graduate Geneviève De Bauw (Thank You & Good Night, B), Denis Delcampe (Need Productions), and Jacques Martin (Crossroads). Contact : pro@dvdoc.be
www.dvdoc.be

NOMINATIONS

65th Golden Globe Awards

Sixty-one foreign language films have passed eligibility requirements for consideration in the 65th Annual Golden Globe Awards in January 2008.
Among them, five projects where EAVE graduates are involved:
- 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
- BEN X, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Sabine Veenendaal
- THE COUNTERFEITERS, co-producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer
- KINGS, co-producer: EAVE 2000 graduate Michael Casey
- LADY CHATTERLEY, producer: EAVE 1989 graduate Hubert Toint
The nominations will be announced on December 13 and the 65th Annual Golden Globes Awards will take place on January 13, 2008 at the Beverly Hilton in Los Angeles.
www.hfpa.org

Swiss Film Awards

From among the 85 eligible titles, the selection committee picked out 15 films as nominees for the top prize of Best Feature Film.
Among them Fulvio Bernasconi’s FUORI DALLE CORDE aka OUT OF THE RING, co-produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Andres Pfaeffli (Ventura Film, CH). Five features are also vying for the Best Documentary Award: Stefan Schwietert’s ECHOES OF HOME, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Brigitte Hofer (Maximage, CH). IL NEIGE A MARRAKECH by Hicham Alhayat, produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Dan Wechsler (Bord Cadre Films, CH) is nominated in the section Best Short Film.
The award ceremony will take place on January 23 as part of the Soleure Film Days.
www.schweizerfilmpreis.ch

Film Independent’s Spirit Awards

Nominated in the category Best Foreign Film are 3 films produced by EAVE graduates:
- ONCE, producer: EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland
- LADY CHATTERLY, producer: EAVE 1989 graduate Hubert Toint
- 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
www.filmindependent.org

Actor Nicolas Giraud has been nominated for a CESAR, the French national film award, as Best Actor for his performance in David Oelhoffen’s NOS RETROUVAILLES, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Olivier Charvet (Kaleo Films, F) and co-produced Rhone-Alpes Cinema.
www.kaleo-films.com

AWARDS

International Documentary Festival Amsterdam

The winner of the Silver Wolf competition (films up to one hour) as well as the Audience Award of this year's Amsterdam documentary festival is TO SEE IF I’M SMILING by Tamar Yarom. International sales are handled by EAVE 1994 graduate Esther van Messel (First Hand Films).
A special award was also given to Hubert Sauper for DARWIN'S NIGHTMARE, produced by EAVE 1989 graduate Hubert Toint (Saga Films, B), voted by the audience as the top film at IDFA over the last two decades.
www.idfa.nl

Tallin Black Nights Film Festival

5 top awards for EAVE graduate: The Special Jury Prize, the Scottish Leader Estonian Feature Film Competition Jury Award, the FICC Jury – Don Quijote Award, the Estonian Film Critics’ Award and the Prize of the Postimees Jury at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival went to AUTUMN BALL, directed by Veiko Õunpuu and produced by EAVE 2007 participant Katrin Kissa (Kuukulgur, EE).
A special mention of the Scottish Leader Estonian Feature Film Competition Jury was given to THE CLASS by Ilmar Raag, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate and Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos.
The Netpac Jury Award went to THE MOURNING FOREST, associate produced by EAVE 1998 graduate Christian Baute (Celluloid Dreams Productions, F).
www.poff.ee

Lëtzebuerger Filmpräis

The 2007 Luxembourg Film Award went to Geneviève Mersch’s documentary PLEIN D’ESSENCE, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Anne Schroeder (Samsa Film, LU). The Award for Best director went to Sam Gabarski for IRINA PALM, produced by EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye (Entre Chien et Loup, B) in co-production with EAVE 1992 graduate & EAVE president Jani Thiltges (Samsa Film, L / Liaison Cinématographique, F), EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson (Ipso Facto, UK), and Pallas Film (D).
The award for Best Artistic contribution went ex aequo to IN A DARK PLACE directed and produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Donato Rotunno (Tarantula, L) for director Donato Rotunno and NUITS D’ARABIE by Paul Kieffer, produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges’ production company Samsa Film, L, (producer: Claude Waringo) for editor Thierry Faber. For the same film, composer Jeannot Sanavia was also rewarded.
www.filmprais.lu

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, Cristian Mungiu's drama about a young woman trying to get an illegal abortion in communist Romania, took the two top prizes at this year's European Film Awards, winning best European film and best European director for Mungiu. The film has been associate produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and French National Coordinator Philippe Avril and EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac.
www.mobrafilms.ro

Irish director Lenny Abrahamson's second feature GARAGE, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Edward Guiney (Element Pictures, IRL), took the $36,600 (Euros 25,000) Best Film Prize at the 25th edition of the Turin Film Festival. GARAGE debuted at Cannes Directors Fortnight and participated in Toronto's Contemporary World Cinema earlier this year.
GARAGE also scooped 3 other top prizes at three festivals: the film’s star Pat Shortt led the way winning the Best Actor award at the Monte Carlo Film Festival, which took place from 21st-24th November. The pic, written by Mark O’Halloran, also had success at two French festivals – it picked up the Jury Award in Festival de Chatenay-Malabry, while at the Festival Cinessone (9th-24th November), it scooped the Grand Prix award and the Prix de Etudiants, the latter award being voted for by students.
www.torinofilmfest.org / www.elementfilms.ie

Bulgarian-German-Dutch co-production INVESTIGATION by Iglika Triffonova, co-produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Helge Albers (Flying Moon, D) was awarded the main prize at the Cottbus Film Festival.
www.flyingmoon.com

At the TV film festival in Baden-Baden, the MFG Star for young directors went to AUTOPILOTEN by Bastian Günther, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Joachim Ortmanns (Lichtblick Film- und Fernsehproduktion). The award is linked to a “carte blanche” for a training or scholarship in Germany or abroad for the amount of 15,000 euros.
www.lichtblick-film.de

The 2007 Schnitt Award for Best Editing went to Anja Pohl for DIE UNZERBRECHLICHEN, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Michael Jungfleisch (Gambit Film- und Fernsehproduktion, D). The DVD of the film can be ordered via www.delicatessen.org
www.gambit-film.de / www.delicatessen.org

Cristian Mungiu's Palme D'Or winner 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and French National Coordinator Philippe Avril and EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac has added Stockholm's Bronze Horse to its impressive list of honours.
www.mobrafilms.ro

The award for Best director at the Thessaloniki Film Festival was given to Estonian director Veiko Ounpuu for his film AUTUMN BALL. The film that has already won the Venice Orizzonti Award this summer, was produced by EAVE 2007 graduate Katrin Kissa (Kuukulgur Film, EE).
www.kuukulgur.ee

SCENES DE CHASSE AU SANGLIER by Claudio Pazienza, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan (Les Films du Present, F), has been awarded the PRIX DE LA CREATION at the festival TRACES DE VIES - Rencontres du film documentaire in Clermont-Ferrand.
LES BALLETS DE CI DE LA by Alain Platel, also produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Patrice Nezan (Les Films du Present, F), was given the Grand Prix of the festival DANCE SCREEN.
www.lesfilmsdupresent.fr

L'ENFANT BORNE by Pascal Mieszala produced by EAVE graduate Aurélie Bordier (Les Enragés, F) with support of the CNC, ARTE France, le Conseil Regional Champagne-Ardenne and the Conseil General de la Haute-Marne, has been awarded the Prize for Best Script at the Festival of Villeurbanne and the Prize of the Press at the Festival in Pontault-Combault.
www.lesenrages.com

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PARTNERS’ NEWS

MFD – Meda Films Development

EAVE is proud to be partner of the Meda Films Development training courses (MFD) for producers from the MEDA countries (Maghreb, Middle East, Israel and Turkey). The programme is destined to accompany author/producer pairs with a feature film project during three eight day sessions over a year. The 3rd session of this year takes place from December 9-16 in Marrakech in parallel to the Marrakech film festival. EAVE 2007 graduate Sylvie Brenet (Play Film, F) has been selected to join the final pitching session where the MFD participants will pitch their 10 selected projects. EAVE Deputy Chief Executive Tina Trapp will also be present in Marrakech.
www.mfd.ma

5th SOFIA MEETINGS – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

The 5th Sofia Meetings will take place from 13th till 16th March 2008 in the frameworks of the 12th Sofia International Film Festival from 6th – 16th March 2008. Sofia Meetings is supported by MEDIA Plus programme of the European Commission and is orientated towards professional audience (producers, directors, world sales, distributors, representatives of financing organizations and film festivals). It has two separate modules: Second Films Pitching – presentation of second feature film projects looking for financial support and cooperation; and Balkan Screenings – showcase of the latest Bulgarian and regional films for directors and programmers from different international festivals, world sales companies and journalists. The aim of Sofia Meetings is to promote new projects of young European filmmakers and new films from Bulgaria and the Balkan region.
If you want to apply for the Second Films Pitching with a second feature project of a European director, you have to send in synopsis, treatment and director’s notes.
The application deadline is January 15, 2008.
For further information, please contact Mira Staleva: mira@sofiaiff.com
www.sofiaiff.com

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EAVE PLUS NEWS

EAVE Plus workshop in Dubai

During the Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF) a professional development programme for film producers from Arab countries is taking place in Dubai from December 9 to 13. The programme is a joint venture between EAVE and the DIFF’s Industry Office. The five day workshop is delivered through a mix of plenary sessions, individual meetings, group discussions, expert panels and case studies. Participants’ projects will be discussed in individual meetings with script consultants as well as with each other in group sessions. There will also be individual pitching and presentation training.
The groups are led by EAVE Head of studies Alan Fountain and EAVE producer Roshanak Behesht Nedjad. Among the various other EAVE consultants are Jacques Akchoti, Fiona Mitchell, Sibylle Kurz and Catherine Buresi. They will be complemented by a range of top professionals from the region, such as Nabil Ayouch, Salem Brahimi, Marianne Khoury, Gabriel Khoury and Hala Galal. EAVE Plus Programme Manager Silke Schönfelder will also be present.
www.eave.org
www.dubaifilmfest.com/en/industry-office/professional-coaching-for-producers.html

EAVE NEWSLETTER November 2007

EAVE NEWS HIGHLIGHTS:
*** MEDIA Funding i2i AUDIOVISUAL for 7 EAVE producers ***
*** EMMY award for DEATH OF A PRESIDENT ***
*** 3 Scottish BAFTAs for THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND ***
***Hollywood World Award for 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS ***
*** 5 EAVE producers nominated for European Film Awards ***

IN DEVELOPMENT / PRE-PRODUCTION

MEDIA - i2i funding

Among the projects selected for i2i AUDIOVISUAL support from the MEDIA Programme of the European Union are 6 projects produced by EAVE graduates:
- EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart (Versus Production, B) and his project CALIFORNIA WASH
- EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer (Josef Aichholzer Filmproduktion, AT) and his project FEUERHERZ
- EAVE 2003 graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad (Flying Moon, D) for her project THE MARKET, co-produced by EAVE 2006 graduate Ceyda Tufan
- EAVE 1998 graduate Oliver Damian (27 Films Production, D) and his project THE RAINBOWMAKER
- EAVE 1999 graduate Karle Aho (Making Movies, FI) and his project BLACK ICE
- EAVE 1991 graduate Panos Karkanevatos (Verga Film Productions, GR) and his project ATHANASIA
- EAVE 2007 graduate Kristina Aberg (ATMO, SE) and her project METROPIA
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/media/index_en.htm

EURIMAGES

In its latest round of development support, EURIMAGES has awarded funding to two EAVE producers and their companies.
- DON’T LOOK BACK by Marina De Van, producer: EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman
- SNOW by Aida Begic Zubcevic, co-producer: EAVE 2005 graduate Karsten Stöter
www.coe.int/eurimages

At the last funding session of the Medienboard Berlin-Brandenburg, tragicomedy FRANCUSKI produced by EAVE 1998 graduate Oliver Damian (27 Films Production, D) was awarded 25.000 Euro development support.
www.27films.biz

PAST PERFECT by Anno Saul and produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Ralph Schwingel (Wüste Filmproduktion, D) has been granted 400.000 Euro production support by German national fund FFA.
www.wuestefilm.de

The Irish Film Board has announced the five successful projects for this year’s Short Cuts scheme. The Short Cuts scheme is aimed at fostering new talent and encouraging innovative short film making in Ireland. Among the five successful projects for this year’s scheme is BOGBODIES, written/directed by Michael Kinirons and produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Katie Holly (Blinder Films, IRL). Short Cuts is co-funded by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board and RTÉ. This will be the last year of the Short Cuts scheme. The successful five shorts will premiere at the Galway Film Festival next year.
www.irishfilmboard.ie

Former EAVE group leader David P. Kelly (London City Productions, UK) and EAVE 1992 graduate and group leader Danny Krausz (DOR FILM, AT) are co-producing biopic DESERT FLOWER by Sherry Hormann. Peter Herrmann (Majestic, D), who won the Oscar for NOWHERE IN AFRICA will be the delegate German producer.
www.dor-film.com

During its latest round of production support, the Swedish Film Institute (SFI) awarded a total of SEK 15.8m (€1.7m) to five feature films and five documentaries, including LEO by Josef Fares (JALLA, JALLA!). Fares' fourth feature film, awarded SEK 3m, tells the story of Leo, who along with his girlfriend is the victim of an unprovoked attack just after having celebrated his 30th birthday. Produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Anna Anthony (Memfis Film, SE), LEO had its world premiere at the Stockholm International Film ahead of its domestic release on November 30 through Sonet Film.
www.memfis.se

IN PRODUCTION

EAVE 2005 graduate Per Forsgren (Eden Film, SE) is currently shooting THE EAGLE HUNTERS SON, directed by Staffan Julen and Rene Bo Hansen, in Mongolia, a full length fiction Per had in development at EAVE 2005. The youth and family film is about a young boy, Bazarbai, who is to become a eagle hunter like his father and ancestors and his journey through Mongolia. It is supported by SFI, SVT, NRK, NF&TV, German Film Funds and produced by Eden Film AB, producer Per Forsgren/Staffan Julen. Co-producer is EAVE 2005 graduate Hannes Stromberg (Stromberg Productions, D) whom Per had met at EAVE. Bavaria International is handling the international sales and distribution.
www.edenfilm.se

EAVE 2000 graduate Claire Lajoumard (Acrobates Films, F) are co-producing a feature film with Argentina and Germany. The 6-week-shooting started end of October in Buenos Aires. The film is called LA SANGRE BROTA (BLOOD APPEARS) and will be the 2nd feature from Pablo Fendrik, a young Argentinean director. He has directed first EL ASALTANTE presented this year at La Semaine de la Critique in Cannes, in San Sebastian, and was awarded best main role at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival. LA SANGRE BROTA is a co-production between MAGMA CINE (Argentina), CAMEO (Germany) and Acrobates Films (France) with the support of Hubert Bals Fund, INCAA (Argentina), NRW (Germany) Fonds Sud Cinema (France).
www.acrobatesfilms.fr

ON SCREEN

A CRUDE AWAKENING directed and produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Ray McCormack (Lava Productions, CH) and Basil Gelpke, is playing in cinemas in the UK since November 9.

Alexander Hahn’s comedy MIDSUMMER MADNESS has been released in Latvia on November 12. The film is one of the biggest co-productions ever made in Latvia, with a €2.3m budget that was put together by EAVE 2001 graduate Markus Fischer (Fischer Film, AT), Steve Walsh Productions and EAVE 2002 graduate Guntis Trekteris (Kaupo Filma, LV) with support from the Austrian Film Institute, Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, Vienna Film Fund, State of Upper Austria, National Film Centre of Latvia, Ingenious Media and Eurimages.
www.fischerfilm.at

Musical comedy ONCE by John Carney, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland (Samson Films, IRL) was released in France on November 14.
www.samsonfilms.com

HORSE THIEVES directed by Micha Wald and produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart and Oliver Bronckart (Versus Production, B) has been released in France on November 14.
www.samsonfilms.com

TRIGGER, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Silje Hopland Eik (Cinenord, NO) is playing in Belgium since November 14.
www.cinenord.no

NUITS D’ARABIE, produced by EAVE 1992 graduate and president Jani Thiltges’ production company Samsa Films, Luxembourg (producer: Claude Waringo) is playing in Luxembourg since November 18.
www.samsa-film.com

4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate produced by EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril and EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac is playing in German cinemas since November 22.
www.mobrafilms.ro

SHROOMS, Irish director Paddy Breathnach’s home-grown horror reached cinema screens in UK and Ireland on November 23. The film was produced by treasure Entertainment's Paddy McDonald and EAVE 1993 graduate Robert Walpole (IRL). SHROOMS is funded by the Irish Film Board, the Northern Ireland Film Commission, Nordisk Film and Ingenious Media.
www.shroomsthemovie.com

Children’s animated film LOTTE FROM GADGETVILLE by Janno Põldma & Heiki Ernits and produced by EAVE 2004 graduate and Estonian National Coordinator Riina Sildos (Eesti Joonisfilm, EE), Kalev Tamm & Vilnis Kalnaellis in co-production with Rija Films (LV) was reased on November 28 in France.
www.lotte-film.com

WOLFSBERGEN by Nanouk Leopold, produced by EAVE 1994 graduate Stienette Bosklopper and co-produced by EAVE 2002 graduate Rudolf Mestdagh was released in Belgium on November 28.
www.cosmokino.com

LEO by Josef Fares, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Anna Anthony (Memfis Film, SE) was released in Sweden on November 30.
www.memfis.se

TV TOP HITS

MY BOY JACK, the Irish filmed Remembrance Day drama, attracted 5.7m viewers for it’s ITV1 broadcast last weekend. Directed by Irish helmer Brian Kirk (Middletown, Cold Feet) and produced by EAVE 2000 graduate Michael Casey (Freeze Frame), the two hour drama also aired on TV3 drawing an audience of 104.000 (a 7.5% share). MY BOY JACK was filmed on location in Ireland during June 2007. The drama is produced by Michael Casey (Middletown, Freeze Frame), James Flynn of Octagon Films and Managing Director of Ecosse Films Douglas Rae.

Documentary SERVICE SOCIAL – TOUT CONTRE L’EXCLUSION was broadcast on France 5 on November 13 at 1h40 and on November 20 at 1h40 and on November 22 and 23 at 15h05.
www.crescendofilms.fr

TV movie ERDBEEREIS MIT LIEBE produced by EAVE 2007 participant Hans Eddy Schreiber (Berengar Pfahl Film, D) was broadcast on German channel SAT 1 on November 20 at 20h15.
www.berengar-pfahl-film.de

Reportage WILDNIS AUS MENSCHENHAND by Dr. Heribert Schöller, produced by EAVE 2004 graduate Olaf Jacobs (Hoferichter & Jacobs, D) was broadcast on German regional channel HR on November 25 at 15h30. Another reportage produced by Olaf Jacobs, VON AHLBECK NACH STRALSUND, was shown on NDR on November 29 at 18h15.
www.hoferichterjacobs.de

NOMINATIONS

European Film Awards nominees

The European Film Academy announced the nominees for the European Film Awards for Best Feature. Among them, five films produced by EAVE graduates:
- 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS, associate producers: EAVE 1992 graduate and French National Coordinator Philippe Avril, EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac
- IRINA PALM, producer: EAVE 2003 graduate Sébastien Delloye, co-producers: EAVE 1992 graduate & EAVE president Jani Thiltges, EAVE 1998 graduate Christine Alderson
- BLACK BOOK, producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer
- GUCHA, producer: EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer
- THE LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, producer: EAVE 1991 graduate Andrea Calderwood
The winner will be announced at the 20th European Film Awards Ceremony on December 1 in Berlin.
www.europeanfilmacademy.org

10th Annual British Independent Film Awards

John Carney’s award winning feature ONCE, produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland, is among nominees for the 10th Annual British Independent Film Awards. John Carney’s ultra low budget film ONCE has been shortlisted for the Best Foreign Independent Feature award. The film, which experienced worldwide success after its award winning screening at the Sundance Film Festival, goes up against the 2007 Foreign Language Oscar winner THE LIVES OF OTHERS, Paul Verhoven’s Venice winner BLACK BOOK (producer: EAVE 1995 graduate Jens Meurer), Olivier Dahan’s LA VIE EN ROSE which was nominated for a Golden Bear in Berlin and Guillaume Canet French drama TELL NO ONE.
Bradley Cole has been nominated as most promising newcomer for his performance in EXHIBIT A, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Darren Bender (Bigger Pictures, UK) and co-produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Rebekah Wray-Rogers who had met in 2005 at EAVE. EXHIBIT A is also nominated in the category Best Achievement in Production and for the Raindance Award.
www.bifa.org.uk

Short film THE SOUND HERE (Blinder Films, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Katie Holly and written by Glenn Montgomery and Rebecca Daly has been shortlisted for new low budget scheme ‘catalystproject’, launched earlier this year, which will see three winning teams get the chance to produce a low-budget feature to the sum of 250.000 Euro. The ‘catalystproject’ mentoring scheme was devised by Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film Board, FÁS Screen Training Ireland, Filmbase, The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, TV3 and the Arts Council, with the aim of developing and training talent in the art of low-budget filmmaking.
www.catalystproject.ie

Short film LA PROMENADE by Marina De Van, produced by EAVE group leader Patrick Sobelman (Agat Films & Cie/Ex Nihilo, F) is shortlisted for a nomination for the French Cesars.
www.agatfilms.com

AWARDS

Cristian Mungiu's 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS won the Hollywood Film Festival's fourth annual Hollywood World Award backed by Screen International. Mungiu's film won the Palme d'Or at Cannes this year and is Romania's submission for the foreign-language Academy Award. The film was associate produced by EAVE 1992 graduate Philippe Avril and EAVE 2006 graduate Dan Burlac.
www.hollywoodawards.com

35th international EMMY awards

DEATH OF A PRESIDENT by Gabriel Range, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Ed Guiney and executive produced by EAVE 1997 graduate Peter Carlton for More4 (UK), about the fictional assassination of the US president, won the Emmy for best TV movie/miniseries. It debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival last year and ran as a miniseries in the UK.
www.emmys.tv

TSB BAFTA Scotland Awards

Kevin McDonald's LAST KING OF SCOTLAND, produced by EAVE 1991 graduate Andrea Calderwood (Slate Films, UK) took three top honours at this year's TSB BAFTA Scotland Awards. The film set in Idi Amin's Uganda picked up prizes for best film, best screenplay (Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock) and best actor for James McAvoy.
www.baftascotland.co.uk

European Film Festival in Estoril

STAGES by Mijke de Jong, produced by EAVE 1995 graduate Leontine Petit (Lemming Film, NL) received the Golden Caravelle Award (30.000 Euro).
The special jury award of the went to AUTUMN BALL by Veiko Ounpuu, produced by EAVE 2007 participant Katrin Kissa’s (Kuukulgur Film, EE).
www.europeanfilmfestivalestoril.com

EAVE 2007 project FIRST OF ALL FELICIA, written by Melissa de Raaf, Razvan Radulescu and produced by EAVE participant Ada Solomon (Hi Film, RO) is one of the four projects that have been awarded a 10.000 Euro grant by the Balkan Film Fund. The Balkan Fund is a script development initiative created in November 2002 by the Thessaloniki International Film Festival.
The winners were announced during the TIFF by a four-member international jury comprised of Lenny Crooks of the UK Film Council, writer/director Richard Kwietkniowski, director/producer Tudor Giurgiu, and writer/producer/Balkan Fund artistic director and EAVE 1990 graduate Christina Kallas. The grants for three of the four awards were provided by the Greek Ministry of Culture and the fourth was offered by the French CNC.
www.filmfestival.gr

VALERIE by Birgit Möller, produced by EAVE 2007 participant Susann Schimk (credo:film, D) was awarded Best Film at the 15th Hamptons Film Festival. The award is worth US$ 185.000.
www.hamptonsfilmfest.org

The Film Financing Circle InCircle Pearl Grant (50.000 $) of the Middle East International Film Festival in Abu Dhabi was awarded to EAVE 2006 project KEEP SMILING, produced by EAVE graduate Sofie Damian.
The winners of the Filmbase/RTÉ Short Film Award have been announced. Three projects were selected for funding from a total of over 130 projects received, among them TART, written and directed by EAVE 2007 participant Mairtín de Barra and produced by Steven Davenport. Each winning team will receive 10.000 Euro in cash, with matching equipment deals towards their productions.
www.filmbase.ie

THE COUNTERFEITERS by Stefan Ruzowitzky, produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Josef Aichholzer (Aichholzer Film, AT) in co-production with Magnolia Filmproduktion GmbH (D) and Studio Babelsberg has been awarded the Grand Prix for Best Film at the Flanders International Film Festival.
www.aifilm.com

John Carney’s independent feature ONCE, produced by produced by EAVE 2001 graduate Martina Niland (both from Samson Films, IRL) has scooped the top prize at Moscow's 2Morrow film festival, which took place from October 26-29. The honour came with a $100.000 cash prize. The Dublin-set musical also picked up the Story award at the four-day fest, which was created as a means of promoting originality in filmmaking. ONCE recently scooped the best International Film award at the 14th Raindance Film Festival in London, and is also among the nominees for the 10th Annual British Independent Film Awards on the 28th November in London’s Roundhouse.
www.samsonfilms.com

HESITATION, directed by EAVE 2005 graduate Virginia Gilbert, produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Julien Berlan, and executive produced by EAVE 2005 graduate Rebekah Wray-Rogers was shown at the following festivals this month: Leeds International Film festival, Festival Européen du film court de Brest, Waterford Film Festival and Bristol Brief Encounters.

PARTNERS’ NEWS

This month on CINEUROPA: The Making Of PRIMA PRIMAVERA, co-produced by EAVE 1999 graduate Steve Bowden (Vita Nova Films, UK). PRIMA PRIMAVERA is a UK/Hungarian/Bulgarian and Dutch co-production between Vita Nova Films (UK), Eurofilm Studio (HU), Geopoly (BG) and EAVE 2003 graduate Arry Voorsmit (Riba Film, NL). The film is a road movie/love story directed by Janos Edelenyi and stars Andor Lukats, Vesela Kasakova and Antonie Kamerling.
Vita Nova Films was founded by the two EAVE 1999 graduates Steve Bowden and Grant Keir after they had met at EAVE in 1999.
http://www.cineuropa.org/making.aspx?lang=en&documentID=1833

EAVE NEWS – Festivals & Markets in November 2007

Sevilla International Film Festival (November 2-10)

OPENING FILM
THE LARK FARM, co-financed by 1998 gradua